WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.000 Take your info to go. 2 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:04.599 I'm listening to my heart powered. 3 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.440 By fifty five KRS the talk station. 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:17.519 Five O five. 5 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:22.199 I think you bout k r C the talk station. 6 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:38.119 Well a vacation. 7 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:41.159 What happy? 8 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.280 That pretty much sums it up. Joe, I was sitting 9 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.679 on the edge of my seat waiting and figure out 10 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.240 what Joe. What's sound by? Joe is going to lead 11 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:50.320 the program off which I'll be Joe's Trucker Executi producer 12 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:52.320 at fifty five Carsy Morning Show'm Brian Thomas, host of 13 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.039 the fifty five Casey Morning Show and offering, as I 14 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:57.439 always do, an open invitation if listeners want to call 15 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.600 in something on your mind, topic you want to focus on, 16 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.119 feel for you to steer us in that direction. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, 17 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:04.959 fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three 18 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.640 Talk Pound five fifty on AT and T phones. Hope 19 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.840 you had a wonderful weekend. A very happy Monday to everybody. 20 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:12.680 Thanks for tuning into the program, and stick around because 21 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.959 it is Monday, meaning we're gonna hear from Christopher Smith 22 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.079 and former Vice Mayor of the City of Cincinnati Every 23 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:20.599 Monday at seven twenty with the Smither vent no idea 24 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:23.159 what he's going to talk about. I never do, but 25 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.200 I always enjoy hearing his thoughts and his comments. A 26 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:28.400 man of logic and reason he is, and someone who 27 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.040 as a financial planner probably is interested in the Moodies downgrade, 28 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.120 and we're going to talk about that with Brian James. 29 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.719 It is Monday. We do Money Monday with Brian James 30 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.599 every Monday at eight oh five. We'll talk to the 31 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.480 Moody's credit rating down grade and the reasons for it, 32 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:44.560 which apparently the Republicans have no concept over. I'm so 33 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.200 so upset with the Republicans over this so called big 34 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.680 beautiful bill. It's kind of running off the rails anyhow, 35 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:53.560 it did come out of committee last night. But we'll 36 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:55.519 talk about the details of that coming up. The homes 37 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:59.480 starter home market in Cincinnati topic number two with Brian James. 38 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:04.640 And finally, big summer vacations apparently out of style considering 39 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.359 the cost of things and not shocking to me, but 40 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.680 we'll find out the reasons behind that with Brian James. 41 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.919 Eighth five, followed by Tim Hester. He's a Cincinni native 42 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:13.919 and Air Force veteran served in Iraq. Thank you for 43 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.840 your service to our country, Tim Hester, he's promoting the 44 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:23.680 PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic tenth anniversary the 45 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.080 Field of Memory celebration honoring the brave men and women 46 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.039 who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. Arlington 47 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.719 Memorial Gardens obtained the exclusive rights of this premiere. The 48 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:39.960 PBS documentary documentary tells the story this is crazy four 49 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.319 man rowing team of Air Force veterans. They called the 50 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.520 team Team Fight or Die, or spelled oar with a 51 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.360 little but I'm bump. So Team Fighter Die embarked on 52 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:58.199 a perilous three thousand mile ocean rowing race called the 53 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:05.240 World's Toughest Row. How about signing up for that, Joe. Anyways, 54 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:08.039 back in twenty twenty two, boat had capsized when they 55 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.039 were hit by a thirty foot twell ended up spending 56 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.360 eighteen hours in a life draft before being miraculously rescued. 57 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.759 So that's the backstory behind the documentary. It should be 58 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.319 a rather interesting conversation with Tim Hester. So that'll take 59 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.599 place at eight forty anyhow, for we move on to 60 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:26.240 other things, like Moody's down, Gray, I see Luke's on 61 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.000 the phone. Let's see what Luce got to say? This morning, Luke, 62 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.879 thanks for calling the morning showing a very happy Monday 63 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:31.319 to you, sir. 64 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.479 Yeah, happy Monday, Brian. I'm just here, you know of PA. 65 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.400 Public announcements remain every year about you know, the notchal 66 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.560 disaction at Kentucky, and they just had me thinking, you know, we're. 67 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:45.879 Dead or number pretty close to a number I can't 68 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.960 fathom mathematically realistically. 69 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:51.280 But what I can a fat him is, anytime there's 70 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.759 a notch disaster here at home in America. 71 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:55.759 There should be a part of the garment should be 72 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.159 there with the dag on silver platter to pick that 73 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.000 family up. We've given so much money, I mean, we 74 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.599 camorrhage money like it's nothing. But the minute there's some 75 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.560 real disaster here in America back like they can't find 76 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:09.199 the fund so they can't, you know, figure out how 77 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:11.680 to get it in the budget or some bureaucracy something 78 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:13.000 that just makes us all angry. 79 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.039 It's so stupid. 80 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.519 We see it in our regular business in life. But 81 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:19.519 the government actually they can't figure out how to cut 82 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.279 a check. They should be there with freaking one hundred 83 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.120 dollars bills. NSAMI truck I get took in the Middle 84 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.800 East to take care of our citizens that have been 85 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.319 through the national disaster and lost their home. 86 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.360 Well, I hear the anger in your voice, look and 87 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:34.600 I share it. But let's face it, anytime you turn 88 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.079 to a bloated federal government for relief and efficiency, you're 89 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.680 barking up the wrong tree. They've demonstrated incompetence in every 90 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.279 single area of government. This is just one more where 91 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:48.160 they botch it. I mean, you can't anticipate when and 92 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.879 where a natural disaster will strike, but they seem to 93 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.920 be able to find money for everything else on the planet, 94 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.199 and yet when it comes to the American citizens and 95 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.240 their well being, You're right, priorities seem to be out 96 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.560 of whack. I can't deny that. I can't deny it, 97 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.199 but I share your frustration generally. But my frustration with 98 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:13.040 federal government goes way beyond FEMA, and it's incompetence. And 99 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.040 with that, let me give a plug for Matthew twenty 100 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.879 five ministries. They are doing a great job dealing with 101 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.000 the Midwest tornadoes. Respond to the devastating tornadoes across the Midwest. 102 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.879 M twenty five M M twenty five M dot org. 103 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.120 That's where your dollar is going to go. The farthest 104 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.160 I am. I'm not affiliated anyway with that ministry. I 105 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.959 just know they do great work and they have practically 106 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.839 no overhead. So a donation Matthew twenty five is going 107 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.000 to mean money and resources and supplies getting to the 108 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.399 people that actually need it, well oiled machine, unlike FEMA. 109 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.279 So we are the most charitable people on the planet 110 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.800 when it comes to things like this, And so maybe 111 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.720 we can keep that in mind, help fulfill Maybe you 112 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.439 have a Christian responsibility to help your fellow men. Maybe 113 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.480 not Christian, and maybe it's just sort of general philosophy, ethics, morality, 114 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.439 whatever happens to be, whatever drives it. There are ways 115 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.560 to help out that don't involve the federal government. And 116 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.480 again this is why I feel so sorry for people 117 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.160 who are stuck and hooked up to the milical court 118 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.199 of federal government. More and more people every year as 119 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.120 we discuss medicaid and curbing the Medicaid dollars spent. One 120 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.000 of the reasons Moody's downgraded US is because the growing 121 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:27.759 burden financing the federal government's budget deficit and the rising 122 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:32.519 costs rolling over existing debt amid higher interest rates. Yeah, 123 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:34.759 one of the reasons we've got a massive budget debt 124 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.000 is because they expanded medicaid to a whole bunch of 125 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.360 people that can work and should be working. And I 126 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.720 can't believe the Republicans fighting against themselves and amongst themselves 127 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:46.639 someonet to keep the medicaid expansion. There that the work 128 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.680 requirement under the prior bill, and I'm not sure if 129 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.240 they've ratcheted back, although promises have been made to some 130 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.600 of the more conservative Republicans are fighting for sanity, that 131 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.199 they will move the work obligation back from previously twenty 132 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.680 twenty nine. Why do you have to wait so long 133 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:07.399 to put a work mandate in therefore able bodied people. Anyhow, 134 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.560 you set to demonstrate that you're trying. And I keep 135 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.160 pointing out the trades. What a wonderful opportunity for some 136 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.399 folks who are hooked up to the Biblical court of government. 137 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.160 Dicey proposition that given the finite number of dollars we 138 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:20.519 have in the world and the fact that we keep 139 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.920 blowing through more than they actually take in. According to 140 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.120 the statement for Moody's, this one notch downgrade and our 141 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.120 twenty one notch rating scale reflects the increase over more 142 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.920 than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios 143 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.279 to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns HM. 144 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.519 They say this lower credit profile will probably have to 145 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.759 lift the yield that people demand in order to buy 146 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.519 US treasury debt to reduce to reflect more risk, and 147 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:58.199 could dampen sentiment toward owning US assets, including stocks. Now 148 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.879 apparently the other credit rategencies already done this to US. 149 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.759 Moody's described as a holdout in keeping our sovereign debt 150 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.800 at the highest debt rating possible or credit rating possible, 151 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:12.439 but now brings Moodies in line with its rivals at 152 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.839 standard and poor. Downgraded US in August of twenty eleven. 153 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.079 Pitch Ratings downgraded US in August of twenty twenty three. 154 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.040 It just took Moodies a lot longer, Moody's analysts in 155 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:27.720 the statements. Successive US administrations in Congress have failed to 156 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.439 agree on measures to reverse the trend of large annual 157 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.840 fiscal deficits and growing interest costs. We do not believe 158 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.240 that material multi year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits 159 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.759 will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration. The big 160 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.519 beautiful bill. I think that's what that is in reference 161 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:51.240 to and no kidding headlines Wall Street Journal this morning, 162 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.960 the stark math on the GOP tax plan. It doesn't 163 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.960 cut the deficits. The plan will not reduce federal budget 164 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.519 deficits and would make them America's fiscal hole deeper. Current 165 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.519 proposal projected buzzet it will increase projected budget deficits by 166 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.360 nearly three trillion dollars through twenty thirty four, walking in 167 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.879 tax cuts and spending increases that outweigh reductions and spending 168 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:19.600 on medicaid and nutrition assistance. So they're getting some, but 169 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:26.879 they're not doing enough. Some Republicans are claiming that higher 170 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.120 economic growth is the growth is going to fill the gap, 171 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.799 but that's not exactly in line with many budget analysts, 172 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.799 particularly given the murky landscape dealing with these tariffs that 173 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:45.320 are in place. So I don't I really don't know 174 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:47.519 what to say. There's more details on this, obviously, we 175 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:50.799 can get into them. But I'm so so thoroughly disappointed. 176 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:55.440 You got so called moderate Republicans clinging to their green 177 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.480 energy projects because they happen to be in their state, 178 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:01.000 even though they never would have been there but for 179 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.440 that sort of inflation Reduction Act, which had nothing to 180 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.600 do with reducing inflation but everything to do with with 181 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:12.000 funding these green new projects. You got other Republicans in 182 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.360 big medicaid expansion states that don't want to come medicate. 183 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:23.120 They're afraid of losing their seats. And we could go 184 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.759 on and on and on, and of course the farms 185 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.320 are protected. I have nothing against the American farmers, matter 186 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:29.879 of fact, I have a profound respect for it. But 187 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.559 you know what, you don't need corn subsidies. We don't 188 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:34.600 need to be putting corn in our gas tanks, and 189 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:39.159 yet there they are. Farmers are capable of growing other 190 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.759 crops that are in demand. Corn isn't the only one. 191 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.799 I'm sure it's far more complicated than that. But really 192 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.600 the subsidy is there, and the support for corn growing 193 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.720 is there because of the ethanol mandates. Let's just get 194 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.879 rid of those, shall we. The demand for ethanol will 195 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.480 go down. We won't have to put in our gas 196 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:02.919 tank anymore. It's not like we're short on oil. Five 197 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.799 sixteenth and five kr s talk station. I got New Hampshire, 198 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.120 Gary and Jay on the line. You both are next 199 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:10.120 in the order in which they receee, which means Gary's 200 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.759 first Jay. Hang on, be right back after these brief words, 201 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:16.480 fifty good Monday, Happy Monday to you. Try to make 202 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.120 it so anyway, I gotta go over to the bones, 203 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.919 says Promise. I got two callers on the line five 204 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.240 one three seven two three talk in the order in 205 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.919 which they're received, New Hampshire, Gary, welcome back to the 206 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:27.480 Morning show. 207 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:33.080 Good morning, Brian. Hey, I gotta tell you you didn't 208 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.000 mention anything about the Supreme Court this week some Friday. 209 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:42.120 I have to tell you, I am, I am disgusted 210 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:47.559 with the Supreme Court, but I understand I wasn't shocked 211 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:52.519 of what the Supreme Court did. And I think what 212 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.960 we see here with the budget and the courts, they're 213 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.679 just a bunch of political hacks. They get to their 214 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:07.159 nng os, they give to their the military complex, they 215 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:11.320 give to their teacher unions. They got the police and 216 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:16.240 fire they've got, and I just can go on and 217 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:22.919 on with the environmental groups, the farmers and every and 218 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.399 even doge is plainly showing and it's only a fraction, 219 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:32.679 only a fraction. What's going on is all the waste 220 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.600 and the stealing, all out just flat out stealing and 221 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:43.279 the political hackery of these judges. They're political acts didn't 222 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:48.039 surprise me. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants came in, 223 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:53.000 not US citizens, came in over the last four years. 224 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:56.840 Now we're going to have to give each one due process. 225 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:02.039 They're not US citizens. They're not titled to all the 226 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:06.720 rights that we are entiled to as civilians. Or you're 227 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:11.600 going to start handed all the illegal immigrants Second Amendment 228 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:14.000 rights and let them take up arms as much as 229 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:19.159 they want, you know, And then I see and no Napolitano, 230 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.039 God bless his soul, but you know he's standing up 231 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:27.519 for NS thirteen people that have it symbolized on their knuckles. 232 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.799 And you know, you've got people like this that they're all, no, 233 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.360 we've got to give them due process. We everything, mark 234 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.600 my word, everything that's being done is going to be 235 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.799 undone just as fast in four years, if not faster. 236 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.080 Because you can see this thing coming to a wind 237 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.840 own as we're going broke, you know you can. I 238 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.840 can see it. Sorry, I'm. 239 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.840 I was wondering how you saw this great undoing that 240 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.600 your reference in what way, shape or form is that 241 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.480 undoing going to occur? Because The problem is I see 242 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.039 it now. The Supreme Court did say that these illegal 243 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.879 immigrants were entitled to more due process than the administration 244 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.519 allowed them, more than just twenty four hours notice. They 245 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.320 have to have an opportunity to you know, have a 246 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.200 hearing in court, you know, so there's some due process all. 247 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.759 The court didn't articulate specifically how much. But it's not 248 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:26.080 a full it's not they're not entitled to a full 249 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.240 hearing with you know, judge and jury and all that. 250 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.639 And so there's there's it's some sort. 251 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:34.120 Of missed the state. Ryan, when they get that tangled 252 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.879 up in court, your white back where you're started, right, 253 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.120 because you know that's no matter what they do, that's 254 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:41.279 going to get tangled up. 255 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:43.840 But how does this great undoing, How does this great 256 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.120 undoing occur that you're referring to, because we're talking about 257 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.399 literally millions and millions of people that are entitled I 258 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.360 guess some form of hearing. So how's that all going 259 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.080 to get undone? 260 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:57.960 Well, you know, tens of billions of people made it 261 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.679 into this country and everybody he opened, they pore the 262 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:02.440 gates down. 263 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:04.559 No, I know how we got here? How do how 264 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.600 does it? How does it get undone, you. 265 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:10.440 Undo it the same way that it was done. No 266 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.320 process in, no process, out, you're out, you're done. 267 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.000 Well, that's going to be that's going to require defying 268 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.320 the highest court in the land. So I can't see 269 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.039 that actually happening unless there's a revolution exactly. 270 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:25.399 That's why I see an undoing here. 271 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.399 So you're talking about rep you're talking about some sort 272 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:28.559 of internal revolution. 273 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:31.840 No, no, no, I don't think it's going to be. 274 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.399 I think what is going to happen is exactly what 275 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.679 they wanted to happen. We're going to file bankruptcy. 276 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.639 Oh well yeah, they're going to. 277 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.840 Create a new constitutional crisis and they're going to create 278 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.840 the new constitution and we're not going to have any 279 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:48.080 say in it whatsoever. 280 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.720 Well, that remains me seen. Now, there's a lot of 281 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.440 people out there in the world that would take up 282 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.639 arms and events something like that would happen. But yeah, 283 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.600 we face an existential threat. It's our spending and it's 284 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:59.200 our debt, and then we're we're not going to be 285 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.720 able to fund literally any programs, including like, for example, 286 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.600 the Social Security program. And you're gonna have thousands and 287 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:06.559 tens of millions of seniors that aren't going to have 288 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.919 a check coming in because well, we've wrecked the FIA currency. Yeah, 289 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:11.559 that's I mean, the writing's been on the wall for 290 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.480 a long time. It's one of the reasons. Moodies was 291 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.519 very gentle, but did point out that we have a 292 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:19.720 massive spending problem, your credit ratings being downgraded. As scoch 293 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.240 we're still one of the best in the entire world, 294 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.000 and nonetheless here we find ourselves. It's a frightening position 295 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.039 to be in. Get Jay. Let's get Jay in here. 296 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:29.679 He's been kind enough the way, Jay, Welcome to the 297 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:30.240 Morning Show. 298 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:32.120 Hey, good morning, Brian. 299 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:32.960 Hey. 300 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.080 I wanted to point out that with this medicaid expansion, 301 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:38.559 if you go back in time and I listened to 302 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.559 your podcast from last week, you had an expert on 303 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.120 he was talking about medicaid fraud. Yeah, which was excellent 304 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:49.480 and it really explains Mike the line and the behaviors 305 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:51.759 that we saw in Columbus where when he was running 306 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:56.120 for governor he was against medicaid expansion. When Obama administration 307 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:59.000 was dangling the carrot out there that we were the 308 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.720 federal government was going to pay for just call it 309 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.480 medicaid fraud. We're just going to lower the bar and 310 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.000 let everybody in. And hey, I know you Red states, 311 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.839 because let's just say there's thirteen Blue states and thirty 312 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:14.720 seven Red states. Ish he told them, I understand you 313 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:16.400 don't want to pay for it. We'll pay for it 314 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.359 for the first three years, and then after that. Your 315 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.359 guest said, they make nine dollars. I think it was like, 316 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:27.960 for every ten dollars spent to get a healthy person 317 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:31.759 on Medicaid, the state gets to keep ninety or something 318 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.079 like that. Or the state makes nine dollars for every 319 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.319 healthy person. So huge incentive to get healthy. 320 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.119 Peape one there. 321 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.559 So that explains why the wine went from being against. 322 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.319 It to being for it. And I can blame the 323 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:46.480 wine all day long. 324 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:50.759 But evidently there was twenty seven Red states it took 325 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:54.119 the deal. So if we said, what's the true root cause, 326 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.920 the true root cause is the way that we currently 327 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:00.640 have this government structured. The federal government down in DC 328 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.799 is the parent and the states are acting like children. 329 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.960 Or let me say a little more harshly, DC is 330 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.680 the pimp and the states are the whore. And until 331 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.119 we fix that, nothing's going to change. Because I understand 332 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:16.880 the Red States are saying, Look, if we don't take 333 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.039 this deal, these other states are going to take the deal. 334 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.599 So we might as well line up what good subservient 335 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.480 horrors and get at least our share, because if we don't, 336 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.839 it doesn't help us at all. So to build on 337 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:31.640 New Hampshire, Gary, would I would I go back to it? 338 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.799 It can be a bloodlesh revolution. Let's do the national divorce. 339 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.319 Can we not agree that the biggest national security threat 340 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:43.519 to this country are the Blue States and the Democrat Party. 341 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.920 And until we see that and we tell them, we'll 342 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:47.559 be as close to you as we are to Canada 343 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:50.839 and Mexico. But your bad ideas are wrecking this country. 344 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.400 And we got to get where this makes states great again. 345 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:56.440 Put a federal government back in its box if you can, 346 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.480 and make it only for defense and trade as it 347 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.079 was in the Constitution. Anything short of that is we 348 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.279 are going to just bet and hope that people that 349 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.640 have all the power and all of the control Washington, 350 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:12.880 DC is no different in Beijing, and this country is 351 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.480 no different in China, where there's a thousand people that 352 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.799 have ninety nine percent of the power and control. That's 353 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.880 what has to change. And until that changes it's just 354 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.119 lip service. We're just asking humanity to do something humanity 355 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.359 has never done or only done once, maybe at the 356 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:31.680 beginning of this country. But we've got to get rid 357 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:35.480 of the We have to do this amicable separation. There 358 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:39.000 is no compromise between life and abortion. There is no 359 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.839 compromise between huge government and small government, between freedom and tranny. 360 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:46.640 And it's okay to have that conversation. 361 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.559 It's almost seems taboo that we won't even go down 362 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:50.000 that path. 363 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:51.640 I don't hear the conversation anymore. 364 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:56.119 Well, the devil's in the details on something like that, Jay, 365 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.039 How would we get from here to there and what 366 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:01.119 would it take? And that's where you're the big concerns 367 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:05.799 come in because absence something like a depression or a 368 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:08.440 major financial collapse with the Fiat currency or something like that, 369 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.559 I don't hear the will or see the will from 370 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.880 our elected officials. Appreciate the call, Jay, have a great 371 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:15.359 Monday and the rest of the week you're buying a 372 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:17.960 new home or fancying your refinanciing your existing mortgage, you 373 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:19.599 need to get in touch with Suzette Low's camp with 374 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.240 Cross Country Mortgage. She is amazing been in the business 375 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:24.160 more than thirty five years. She knows everything there is 376 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:27.079 no about mortgage is number one in customer service. 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Suzet 388 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:01.119 dot Low's camp LOSC kamps dot Los camp at CCM 389 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:01.839 dot com. 390 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:05.480 This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station. 391 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.319 This week's marketers posted and it is a local story 392 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.440 since it talks about City of Cincinnati's financial state. Truth 393 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.119 in Accounting at the University of Denver published at twenty 394 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:19.200 twenty five what they call Financial State of the City's 395 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.480 report ranked seventy five of US cities according to their 396 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:25.799 financial condition. You know where we show up sixty seven 397 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.640 out of seventy five, earning us a D rating almost 398 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.440 at the very bottom of the of the list. Columbus 399 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.039 got a see they ranked at thirty seven. Cleveland got 400 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.160 a B, coming in at number five. Gordon the Porta 401 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:46.279 calculated the taxpayer burden for each Cincinnati taxpayer thirteen thousand, 402 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.880 four hundred dollars per taxpayer, again sixty seventh, worst of 403 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:55.240 the seventy five ranked accord to truth in accounting that burden, 404 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:57.839 that tax burn a thirteen thousand, four hundred dollars. That's 405 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:00.200 how much each Cincinnaia taxpayer would have to pay to 406 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:04.359 eliminate Cincinnati's non capital debt, which would be on top 407 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.960 of the taxes they've already paid this to the city. 408 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.640 So how long has the city been run by Democrats? 409 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.799 Too long answer from Joe Streker. You're right, Joe. You 410 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.559 get a gold star for the right answer. H What 411 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.079 started out as a normal traffic stop and Sharonville ended 412 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.960 with a massive police chase happened Saturday evening. Routine stop 413 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:31.640 for a fictitious license plate violation about five point thirty 414 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:35.000 in the evening. According to Scharonville Police Department. Things got 415 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.319 shaken up when the driver fled the scene, striking the 416 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:41.559 officer's cruiser, and they ignored multiple orders to stop. Police 417 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.839 pursued the suspect nearly thirty minutes before using stop sticks. 418 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:50.000 Suspect identified as Alicia Joyce Bryan, who's fifty four from Hamilton, Ohio, 419 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.960 charged with attempted to sell a police officer, felony, fer 420 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:57.759 to comply with a police officer, drug paraphernalia, driving under suspension, 421 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:02.200 and a fictitious license plate. Also had an standing warren 422 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:05.279 from Butler County forty five year old Kevin Gabbard in 423 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.799 the vehicle. He's been charged with tampering with evidence. Gabbart 424 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.279 also had an open warrant through a high open parole authority. 425 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:18.240 No injuries, thankfully, and it's all v vake Ramaswami. Attorney 426 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:20.640 General David Josh spended his campaign for governor. Made the 427 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:23.519 announcement Friday afternoon. This is one week after the High 428 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:30.240 Republican Party overwhelmingly endorsed the vake Ramaswami. Yos wrote an 429 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.240 email to his supporters, this is time to protect Ohio, 430 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:35.920 not a time for family squabble I've spoken at length 431 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.799 with many people whose advice and wisdom I respect, and 432 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:42.880 having come to this decision quickly or easily, launched his 433 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:49.400 campaign in January, describing himself as a principled conservative, and 434 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.920 his campaign suspension announcements reported that Yos said the fight 435 00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:56.279 to become a house next governor was more than an 436 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.920 uphill climb. Said is also apparent that a steep cli 437 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:02.960 to the nomination for governor has become a vertical cliff. 438 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:05.759 I do not wish to divide my political party in 439 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:08.559 my state with a quixotic battle over the small differences 440 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:10.559 between my vision and that of my opponent. I am 441 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.240 simply not that important, wells, because his vision is his 442 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:18.759 platform was really pretty much identical to be vag Ramaswami. 443 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.680 And Ramaswami a widely popular guy, of course Cincinnati native. 444 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:24.680 So I'm not quite sure if that's going to benefit 445 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:27.000 the city of Cincinnati if he becomes elected governor, which 446 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:29.680 appears likely at this juncture, but I think it's a 447 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:33.039 step in the right direction. I do believe that David 448 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:36.160 Yos made the right decision in backing out, basically seeing 449 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:40.039 the writing on the wall five one, three, seven fifty 450 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.839 eight hundred eight two three talk go with pound five 451 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:44.640 fifty on at and T funds only have a few 452 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:48.000 stack of stupid stories this morning, So welcome the opportunity 453 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:50.240 to hear from a listener if you've got something you 454 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:53.079 want to talk about. And we strongly recommend Gate of 455 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.759 Heaven Cemetery for quiet reflection. And how about Memorial Day? 456 00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:57.000 Yeah. 457 00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:59.960 Gate of Heaven gave me some information about their Memorial Day. 458 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.000 A Monday, May twenty sixth Memorial Day presentation at a 459 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:07.319 place called the Priest Mounted Gateway at Gate of Heaven 460 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.440 Cemetery of Montgomery Road. The annual Memorial Day Fields Mass 461 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:16.119 celebrated by Archbishop Robert Stray at eleven am for my 462 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:21.599 Catholic friends, a patriotic rosary in the Veterans Garden. Sacred day, 463 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:25.079 but prayer, remembrance and gratitude for those who served and 464 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:28.400 all loved ones interred. So gather on the blessed grounds 465 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:30.839 of Gate of Heaven to honor the faith, freedom and sacrificed. 466 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:32.599 It is open to the public and you don't have 467 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.319 to be Catholic to go. Everybody's welcome to remember these 468 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:38.680 veterans who pay the ultimate price and service of their 469 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.079 country for information. Get all the details at gateof Heaven 470 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:44.200 dot org. That's Gate of Heaven dot org. 471 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:49.880 This is fifty five KRC an iHeartRadio station, the Riveting. 472 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:53.160 Pudd and a happy Monday to you friend Thomas in 473 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:55.440 fviting phone calls. I appreciate hearing from folks. And we're 474 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:56.880 going to go to the phones right now. Five point 475 00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:58.960 three seven four nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and 476 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.359 eighty twenty three Taco with fifty on AT and T phone. 477 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:03.400 So before we get to the stack of stupid, let's 478 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.880 see what Bobby's got this morning. Bobby, Happy Monday to you, sir. 479 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:10.039 Happy Monday, my brother, Keep holding that flag of freedom 480 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.279 up high, trying to do it, trying to do it. 481 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.680 I want to go ahead and command the Republican Party 482 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:21.400 in the state of Ohio, making an early endorsement or 483 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:24.319 the fake yeah, because I feel and a lot of 484 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:27.400 other people feel that there's nothing but a shot across 485 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:28.839 the bow against Mike Dwan. 486 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.079 Oh yeah, this is the end of the old Guard 487 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:36.079 with a vvake Ramaswamy over it was like a sixty 488 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:39.160 to three vogue with the Ohio Republican Party. Don't quote 489 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:42.079 me on that, but it was so overwhelming the support 490 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:45.200 for Ramaswamy. I think it's definitely a shot at the 491 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:46.680 Dwine and the old guard. 492 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:53.119 Well Man also, But look at his reluctant Stephen putting 493 00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:57.079 somebody in the vice president's position right down here in Cincinnati, 494 00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:58.960 waved till the last minute, and. 495 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:01.039 They're just fed up with they're tired of it. 496 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.160 And while the times people don't want to have to 497 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.839 step out on the bow of the ship to jump 498 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:12.119 off and use their opinions against the governor, but it's time. 499 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:13.920 It should have happened a long time ago. 500 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:18.920 Yeah, I think your comments along those lines are probably 501 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.319 met with a lot of support among my listening audience. 502 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.400 That's the general theme that the callers have revealed over 503 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:29.319 the years during the Dwine administration. You can go back 504 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.839 and fault him for all the COVID edicts and mandates 505 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:33.880 and everything else that we had going on in the 506 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:38.039 state of Ohio, obviously in star contrast to Florida, for example, 507 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.119 which managed to come out just quite nicely without having 508 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.799 to lock anything down. So yeah, there's a lot of 509 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.960 reasons to be upset with the Wine and maybe we'll 510 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:51.240 have some herding of cats under a new administration with 511 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:57.079 the Vega Ramaswami. Because lord knows, Columbus is a real mystery. 512 00:27:57.119 --> 00:27:59.640 If you're a Republican or Republican leaning, you just wonder 513 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:01.680 why they can't seem to get their act together and 514 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:03.720 why they do some of the things that they do, 515 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.839 like six hundred million dollars for the Cleveland Browns. Anyway, 516 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:09.480 let's go to the stack of stupid and go to 517 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:15.000 Los Angeles. Something's got to give. So we have a 518 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.920 Los Angeles business owner found what they describe as a 519 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.279 novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building, 520 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:31.200 playing an annoying children's song called baby Shark on a Loop. Now, 521 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:33.200 I'm not sure if you've heard baby Shark, but once 522 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.920 that gets in your head, it's an earworm that has 523 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:38.799 a difficult time going away. It is annoying as hell. 524 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.559 I even asked Joe Strecker if you had it around 525 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.359 he could access it. He just looking. He goes, I'm 526 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.960 not playing baby Shark. Court to one of the women 527 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:48.960 who lives in the encampment next door to the building 528 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:53.240 playing Baby Shark on a Loop. Sad this they played 529 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:56.160 baby Shark all night long. They're doing everything they can 530 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.400 to make us move or drive us crazy, but it's 531 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:03.240 doing the last. It's driving people crazy. Well maybe that 532 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:05.680 is the point. It drives you crazy and then you move. 533 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.799 They started playing the song through a loudspeaker that was 534 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.519 pointed directly directly at this encampment. I see a photograph 535 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:13.880 of it, and I can't imagine a business staying open 536 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.240 with this type of encampment right in the front, basically 537 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.119 in the front door. She said it kept her and 538 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:22.920 others up all night. She also called it ridiculous. We 539 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.000 can't get any sleep, we can't get any housing, we 540 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:26.880 can't eat, and now they're trying to drive us crazy 541 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.240 with children's music. A guy down the street owns a 542 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.119 barber shop called Styles Barber Lounge Shalom. Styles, interviewed by 543 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.319 local news there, told the outlet that they aren't trying 544 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:40.400 to be mean or insensitive to the homeless, but have 545 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:44.759 businesses to run and are just trying to survive. Said 546 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:47.480 it's not always it's not always about being kind, because 547 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:50.000 when people are taking away from business and all the 548 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:53.559 stores are going out of business, we're still here surviving, 549 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.880 trying to put up for our family. Well, and those 550 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.319 businesses what pay the tax dollars that are supposed to 551 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.240 well provide you know, means and resources to get these 552 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.359 people out of the homeless encampments. Who wins in this 553 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:14.359 right when you think about Medicaid expansion, This whole, this 554 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.759 whole system that we have is collapsing on itself. The 555 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.880 ones who make money, the ones who create businesses, provide 556 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.279 job opportunities, are shouldering the burden for the ever growing 557 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:30.079 number of people who refuse to participate, who refuse to 558 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.319 get jobs. I don't know what the solution is with 559 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:39.079 the homeless crisis, but wow, the weight of it is 560 00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:43.519 becoming just an insurmountable challenge, and the businesses go out 561 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.039 of business and the people flee and go to other states. 562 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:48.680 It's a downward spiral out in California among other cities 563 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.000 that are going down the same path. Forty five fifty 564 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.039 five KRC The talk station More to talk about Stick 565 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:55.880 around and be right. 566 00:30:55.799 --> 00:31:00.119 Back fifty five KRC forty nine. 567 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:01.799 Coming up at five fifty to fifty five KR ceed 568 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:05.960 Talk Station Smith event. Christopher Smith been at seven twenty 569 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.240 Money Money with Brian James at eight oh five and 570 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.160 Tim Hester. Since a Native Air Force veteran, and he's 571 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.160 promoting the PBS documentary Defying Death on the Atlantic. We'll 572 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.480 get the details from Tim A A forty back over 573 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:21.319 to the stack of stupid. Got another one, Joe, I 574 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:25.960 don't get with teachers having sex with students anyway. This 575 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:28.839 one Desota County, Mississippi high school teacher they're accused of 576 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.839 making out with a student Gordon affidavit from the DeSoto 577 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:35.920 County Sheriff's Office. Thirty one year old in Natalia Wright, 578 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:39.440 another female teacher, former teacher Lewisburg High School, committed acts 579 00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:43.279 of licentious sexual desires with a child under the age 580 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:48.920 of eighteen. She was a special education teacher at Louisbourg 581 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:51.039 during the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year. 582 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:54.720 While these happened or this happened, she was also the 583 00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:59.400 student's tutor in addition to being the student's teacher. Wright's 584 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:03.279 husband allegedly obtained footage and audio recording of her admitting 585 00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:06.160 to kissing the student on multiple occasions while tutoring the child. 586 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.200 Additional witnesses observed her kissing and making out with the 587 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:12.039 student on multiple locations, which included the parking lot of 588 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:17.480 a Taco Bell and the Longview Point Baptist Church. She 589 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:20.200 resigned from the school beginning of April due to inappropriate 590 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.279 contact with a victim, which included physical touching, communication, and 591 00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.200 driving the child to school in her personal vehicle multiple times. 592 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.599 Arrested May twelfth at a two hundred thousand dollars bond, 593 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.759 charged with fondling by person of position or trust. 594 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:38.599 Period. 595 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:44.480 The biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies, 596 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:49.440 there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the job, 597 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:55.680 the pinnacle of douche dum good going doues. Your dreams 598 00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:01.039 have come true. And here's one of the stories. When 599 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:02.880 you look at the mugshot, you think, yeah, that sounds 600 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:08.839 about right. Briefly describing this woman, a mother, Ashley Pardo, 601 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:12.440 facing criminal charges after authorities arrested her thirty three years old, 602 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:17.079 charged with aiding in the commission of terrorism. She's got 603 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.920 all kinds of face tattoos. She looks like she's got 604 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:22.880 straight lines for eyebrows that have been tattooed on there 605 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:27.839 and a giant nineteen ninety two tattoo on her neck 606 00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:35.640 among other neck tattoos. Okay, authority say the Pardo's middle 607 00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:39.119 school age son had expressed a desire to carry out, 608 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:41.799 in their words, in the arrest rey board, acts of 609 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:46.119 mass violence at his school. Officials alleged this woman bought 610 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.480 the items knowing that they would be used for a crime. 611 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.160 Please say the student, I know what. He arrived the 612 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.960 Roads Middle School in San Antonio Monday outfit with a 613 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.039 mass camouflage jacket and tactical plants or pants, but he 614 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:02.440 soon left school swept for potential threats, and the student 615 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:06.279 was later found off campus. Now facing terrorism charges, Pardo 616 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:10.559 posted a thirty five dollar bonds release from jail. Boy 617 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.800 was suspended last month after he allegedly researched the twenty 618 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:18.320 nineteen christ Church mosque shooting on a school issued computer. 619 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:21.840 Part of his son returned to school last week, which 620 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:27.880 point officials implemented a safety plan for fear of potential violence. Apparently, 621 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.719 she bought ammunition, magazines and the tactical gear the kid 622 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:35.960 was wearing. We'll just go ahead and include her in 623 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:42.599 the prior given awarded. Joe investigation underway after a Pennsylvania 624 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:48.239 school district said a kindergarten student gave jello shots to classmates. 625 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:54.760 Greater Johns School district said that a kindergarten student in 626 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:57.320 the elementary school gave out quote alcohol in the form 627 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.800 of small jello cups close quote to three hundreds other students. 628 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.960 Superintendent said. One staff learn about the situation, immediate action 629 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:08.000 was taken. Students taken to the nurse's office for evaluation, 630 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:11.239 and out of an abundance of caution, EMS called to 631 00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:13.960 take the kids to a local hospital. Parents were notified 632 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:18.039 and met first responders there at the hospital. Not clear 633 00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.480 how the student got the alcoholic jello cops, but the 634 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.360 district said it's looking into it and cooperating with authorities 635 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:30.119 I know. Stated said, we are currently a possession of 636 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:33.440 the jello cups in the matter is under investigation. We 637 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.440 are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the 638 00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.760 students came into possession of these items and to ensure 639 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.920 the continued safety of our students and staff. Joe, you 640 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.599 think the jello shots now up over in the faculty 641 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:56.159 lounge not anymore. It really is kind of puzzling. How 642 00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:59.119 old is a kindergartener, Joe, isn't that like five years old? 643 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:03.400 I bet mom and dad had a party over the 644 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:05.360 weekend and the kid grabbed him up and threw him 645 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:09.960 in his back. Went to school with us. Now you 646 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.760 skeptical about that anyhow? Coming up off top of the 647 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:17.920 air news play, more to talk about it, including the 648 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:19.920 actual reality of what the hell's going on with the 649 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:26.280 GOP tax plan. Oh, they've promised, they've promised, they aren't delivering. Also, 650 00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:29.719 Joe Biden's health at issue here, and I have a 651 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.800 good friend of mine SYOP, former military SIOP, and so 652 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.079 anything coming out like this, he always has something to 653 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:42.440 say about it. This was a meme media cover up revealed, 654 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:44.400 which is all what's going on about Biden and his 655 00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.760 failing and deteriorating cognitive state, which was well documented by 656 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:49.559 folks like you and me because we could see with 657 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:51.840 our own eyes and hear with our own ears that 658 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.920 he was deteriorating. At the media lied and lied and lied. 659 00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:58.000 Everyone surrounding Biden lied and lied and lied. So that's 660 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.880 really a story that's got some legs right now. So 661 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:06.880 with that in mind, his comment was q the cancer announcement, 662 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:10.159 in other words, operating as a distraction from the broadly 663 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:14.840 reported information about the Biden cognitive cover up. Anyways, stick 664 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.440 around more to talk about in six o'clock hour. You 665 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:18.000 can feel free to call it love to hear from you. 666 00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:20.559 I'll be right back at the top of the hour. 667 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.679 Every day we discover something. 668 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:26.239 New and important the day's top stories on fifty five 669 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.559 KRC the Talk Station. 670 00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:31.320 The Riveting Podcast. 671 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:35.480 Six six fifty five KR CEED Talk Station Brian Thomas here, 672 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.599 which means, ever you want a happy Monday, and hoping 673 00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:40.599 you had a wonderful weekend. The weather was just oh 674 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.440 so wonderful over the weekend. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty, 675 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:45.639 eight hundred eight two to three TALKO with Ton five 676 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:48.159 fifty on AT and T phones. Before we get to CJ. 677 00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:50.239 One moment, CJ, let me folks know what's coming up. 678 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.840 Seven to twenty with Christopher Smithman every Monday at seven 679 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.960 twenty with the former vice mayor of the City of Cincinnati. 680 00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:58.760 And the Smither vent eight oh five with Brian James 681 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.280 Monday Monday on Moody's atitg grating, which I referenced in 682 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.440 the last hour It dropped and the reason is we 683 00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:07.599 are on a terrible physical trajectory. Deficits keep getting bigger, 684 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:11.519 and Republicans, even hammering out this big, beautiful bill can't 685 00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:13.599 find more than one and a half trillion dollars over 686 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:16.199 ten years, while we rack up two trillion dollars in 687 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:19.679 debt each and every year additional debt. It's just it's 688 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:21.639 a downward spiral. There's nothing more that you can say 689 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:23.800 about it. We'll talk about the starter home market in 690 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:27.239 Cincinnati and big summer vacations apparently out of style, says 691 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:29.880 Brian James, and then go to eight forty with Tim Hester. 692 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:32.039 He's a Cincinni native and Air Force veteran. Thank you 693 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:34.400 for your service, Tim. He's going to be promoting any 694 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.880 PBS documentary defying death on the Atlantic, so we'll hear 695 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:41.000 from Tim at eight forty CJ thanks for calling this morning. 696 00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:41.920 Happy Monday to you. 697 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.360 Happy money to you as well. 698 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:48.719 On this Biden health issue, it is really easy to 699 00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.400 come up with conspiracy theories because so many people lied 700 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.079 within that administration and those who are around him. 701 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:56.719 Yes, there was a speech. 702 00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:58.679 Given by him, I think it was in twenty twenty 703 00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:01.800 two or twenty twenty three where he did the whole 704 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:05.800 moonshot for cancer, which is a great thing. 705 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:08.800 But in the middle of that speech he says. 706 00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.960 Something that says there are millions of people like myself 707 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.480 who have been diagnosed with cancer, and then the administration 708 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.239 came out and said, oh, that is just Joe being Joe. 709 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:20.599 And it was just a slip. 710 00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:23.400 The question is was that really a slip. 711 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:26.440 Granted, a lot of people can get into stage four 712 00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:28.480 from prostate cancer because. 713 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.559 Of screening, and they don't do the screenings. 714 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.360 But this is the President of the United States who 715 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.119 gets an annual physical and has a doctor on him 716 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.880 twenty four hours a day, especially at his advanced age 717 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:46.039 and his apparent a mental declinanted intake, you know, Sherlock 718 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.800 Holmes ord Larry Holmes to figure out that he had 719 00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:52.880 some mental capacity issues, and so they had doctors on 720 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.880 him constantly. 721 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:57.599 If this administ if that administrations. 722 00:39:56.800 --> 00:40:00.199 Led about this, which they probably did, this, this is 723 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.920 another reason why those people should be nowhere near power, 724 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:06.760 whether it is dog catcher or the President of the 725 00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:07.639 United States. 726 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:14.639 No offense to dog catchers. Didn't call looking for an argument. 727 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:17.679 See Jay, I agree with you completely. Yeah, leaves everything 728 00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:21.079 go open to question mark. I mean, you know, Cash 729 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:23.039 Mattel came out the other day they said that the 730 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:28.360 FBI actually really legitimately ran a bait and switch in 731 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:31.719 connection with the Hillary Clinton shenanigans. He put to the 732 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.000 FBI's handing a Hillary Couldn't Email investigation as example of 733 00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:39.119 political bias and institutional failure, claiming senior officials within the 734 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:44.559 Justice Department hijack their constitutional responsibilities, selectively declining which cases 735 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.679 are deciding which cases to pursue. Said, apparently he's got 736 00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.199 a whole although the statute of limitations expired, he's got 737 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:54.199 a whole room full of documents, and he's gonna let 738 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:56.039 them out. So the good news, the good thing here 739 00:40:56.119 --> 00:40:58.920 is we're now to clean it up, meaning the FBI's reputation. 740 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.840 You're about to see a wave of transparency. Just give 741 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:06.840 us about two weeks. Hum he said, he referring to 742 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.559 the crossfire hurricane cover up Donald Trump's ties to Russia 743 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.679 and working with Congress to put out information surrounding it. 744 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:18.079 He said, this is how vindictive and vicious the former 745 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:22.159 leadership structure here was FBI. Not only did they bastardize 746 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.639 the FISA process and led to the American people, they 747 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:28.960 withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where 748 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:30.559 people weren't supposed to look. 749 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:31.800 Hum. 750 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:34.159 Well, he had a whole lot more to say about 751 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:36.639 that in his interview the other day with Maria Bartromo. So, 752 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:40.039 but yeah, there's a problem right there. But then pivoting 753 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:42.800 over to the whole Trump, the whole Biden cover up thing. 754 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:45.199 There's a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal, 755 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:47.639 a Reckoning for the Biden cover up, and they talk 756 00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.679 about all the politicians that lied, all the ones that 757 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.559 surrounded him, pointing out that they were with him all 758 00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:56.920 of the time. And more and more informations coming out 759 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.119 with these books that have been published than the most 760 00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:05.159 latest one, Original Sin President Biden's decline, its cover up, 761 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.239 and his disastrous choice to run again, by none other 762 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:13.199 than CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios. I 763 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.840 guess they're trying to cover their tracks since they were 764 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.880 some of the apologists for Biden during the period of 765 00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:22.559 time that we are own eyes and the journalists in 766 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:24.559 Americans could see with their own eyes for years that 767 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.159 Biden was going downhill, fast, stumbling, he following, He couldn't 768 00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.679 remember names, looked lost in public appearances, had to be 769 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:34.320 let off stage. Remember the bunny rabbit. He'd wander off 770 00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:36.519 to one side. Your exit is on the other side, 771 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.000 mister Biden. Here let's step this way. We all saw it, 772 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.440 and of course that leads us to the whole idea 773 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.679 of Joe Biden running for reelection. And it wasn't until 774 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.840 that debate that the jig was up and they had 775 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.199 to pull the plug on Biden metaphorically giving Democrats no 776 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.199 opportunity to select who the nominee might be. Let's coronate 777 00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.440 Kamala Harris. That's what the cover up led to. That's 778 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.079 what got done. Ronald Trump elected well, plus he ran 779 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:04.239 on policies that a lot of the American people were hoping, 780 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:08.960 like closing the border anyway. But focusing on the media, 781 00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.679 and it's worth reading the Bidens finility cover up is 782 00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:15.320 also a media reckoning. Whenever someone dared to point out 783 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:18.000 that mister Biden wasn't up to the jobs, the praetorian 784 00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.760 media guard assembled to deny it. We could quote chapter 785 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:24.280 in verse from many media sources, but one example worth 786 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.320 signing is none of them. Mister Jake Tapper Grabian the 787 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:32.159 TV clip service, has compiled a montage of Jake Tapper 788 00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.320 casting doubt on those who cast a doubt on mister 789 00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:40.400 Biden's mental fitness. Wall Street Jeneral reported in a detailed 790 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:43.599 piece June fourth last year, that those who observed Biden 791 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:47.199 in person were concerned about his decline. Mister Tapper quoted 792 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:50.719 a White House dismissal of the story, including a sneer 793 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:53.599 that the journal is owned by News Corp, which is 794 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.559 run by the Murdochs, as if that rebutt of the story. 795 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:02.480 He then interviewed a Democrat who dismissed it. A Democrat 796 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.159 dismissed the journal's reporting. A more curious journalists would have 797 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:11.440 explored it, explored rather if it were true, and maybe 798 00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:14.599 even done some of his own reporting. Only now does 799 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:19.199 he tacitly admit that the journal was right. The cover 800 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:21.400 up of mister Biden's mental decline will go down as 801 00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:25.559 one of the greatest scandals of modern politics. By refusing 802 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:29.719 to admit what voters could so clearly see, Democrats denied 803 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:34.519 their party in open primary once Biden imploded. They handed 804 00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:38.880 Kamala Harris the nomination without debate that mister Biden bowed 805 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:41.079 out in twenty twenty three. Republicans might also have been 806 00:44:41.159 --> 00:44:44.280 more open to nominees other than mister Trump. Instead, Democrats 807 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:48.159 turned into a turn to lawfair in attempt to disqualify Trump, 808 00:44:48.639 --> 00:44:52.760 which solidified his hold on the GOP voters. Democrats in 809 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:55.920 the press are now appalled by mister Trump's second term. 810 00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.039 They would do better to think upon and seek contrition 811 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.920 for their own role in making it possible. And I 812 00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:05.079 guess I have to ask out loud, does anybody, I mean, 813 00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:08.000 can you really legitimately trust the mainstream media after all 814 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:13.280 of the lies I mean, in this is just one 815 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:20.039 area of the lies. We regularly joke about the talking points. 816 00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:21.960 I went through a little montage on my own last 817 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.199 week about the new talking points. We're looking forward. We're 818 00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:26.400 just looking forward. We're not going to talk about the past. 819 00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.840 Oh in the context of this, Well, that's what the 820 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:31.519 mainstream media is parroting, and the Democrats are parroting it 821 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.199 as well. But you know, you can get back to 822 00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:36.000 the Hunter Biden laptop story. New York Post broke that 823 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:38.960 and they were ridiculed for breaking it. Out comes the 824 00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:43.239 fifty one you know, former intelligence agents signing onto the 825 00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:47.320 letter suggesting it looked like Russian collusion or Russian interference 826 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:50.920 or Russian propaganda, whatever the words were they used, yes, 827 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:54.400 in advance of the election, and that was parroted all 828 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:57.039 over the media. They wouldn't even acknowledge that it was 829 00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:00.800 a possibility the Biden laptop was or the hunterapp was real. 830 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:03.639 And yet we now find out later the FBI knew 831 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:05.239 it was real, and they had known about it for 832 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:11.119 a long time, meaning that letter was legitimately outright fabrication lie, 833 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.000 a lie perpetuated by the mainstream media. So your government 834 00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:21.960 lies to you again. The Biden administration and the prior 835 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.559 administration lied to you and perpetuating this fabrication. They wanted 836 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.360 Trump out. They wanted Trump to lose. Every lettered agency 837 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.000 in DC wanted Trump to lose. And now you got 838 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:39.079 coll me with the eighty eighty six forty seven. 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Happy Monday five on three seven, five hundred, 867 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.199 eight hundred and eight to two three Talk contract fIF 868 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:13.039 you on eighteen or two phones, Ay fifty five cars 869 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:16.239 dot com. You get your iHeart media app and check out. Uh, 870 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:18.239 we'll get a copy of zimmer the movement that defeated 871 00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.960 a nuclear power plan. Interesting conversation with the author of 872 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:23.039 that book, a local author. Over to the phones, we 873 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:25.199 go Westside, Jim, Thanks for holding over the break, my friend. 874 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:26.159 Always good to hear from you. 875 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.760 Good morning, Brian Thomas. How are you some warning? Sir? 876 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:35.840 I'm doing okay, I guess good luck tomorrow tomorrow. 877 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:39.119 Don't you having your your eye done tomorrow? 878 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:39.360 Nah? 879 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:40.920 I haven't it done this afternoon. I have to take 880 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:43.280 tomorrow off because last time I am I'm getting to 881 00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:43.920 glau coma. 882 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:44.119 Sir. 883 00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:46.480 It's not a surgery. They just blast a bunch of 884 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:48.320 holes with a laser in your eye to help her 885 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:51.039 lieve the pressure. So I had my right eye done. 886 00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:53.880 It's been like two months now. But when I woke 887 00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:56.239 up the next day, I couldn't read. It was so 888 00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:59.239 blurry that I was struggling to read. So I anticipate 889 00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.440 that's going to be the case. So I've taken tomorrow 890 00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:05.039 off out of an abundance of precaution. Gary Jeff Walker 891 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:06.360 is going to cover for me in the morning. 892 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:08.840 Gotta do what you gotta do, buddy. 893 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.559 Yeah, I know. Hey, it runs with the family. Yeah, 894 00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:16.599 ot coma, I know it just it runs in the family. 895 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:20.480 And you know, folks out there are pro tip see 896 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:23.960 an eye doctor regularly and have your pressure check because 897 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:26.280 you can end up going blind if you have glaucoma, 898 00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:28.760 it goes undiagnosed and you're not placed on medication or 899 00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:31.719 otherwise have this laser procedure. Yeah, you run the risk 900 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:34.599 of blindness. So you know, it's not something that's impossible 901 00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.239 to cure or solve, but you got to know you've 902 00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:38.920 got a problem ahead of time to deal with it. 903 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:41.000 So we'll pro tip there. 904 00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:43.000 And may can lead to other things. 905 00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:47.159 But on Biden, you know, I don't rarely talk I 906 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:50.880 do rarely talk about my health issues, especially on radio. 907 00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.320 But seven years ago, when I retired and found out 908 00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.280 that I had the evil see I can, I can 909 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:03.000 really kind of feel sorry for him because when I 910 00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:05.920 had I didn't know what I had and I got tested. 911 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.440 But what happened was they told me I had stage 912 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:12.239 four prostate cancer, and I didn't know what the hell 913 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:15.320 I was. So I came home and found out that 914 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:20.360 stage four is not a death wish immediately and then 915 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:23.800 within the next month it traveled to the bones. So 916 00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:27.639 this must be a notoriously bad thing that happens. And 917 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:30.239 that's what my doctor told me. To the one from OHC. 918 00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.920 There's the plug that it came in and then travels out. 919 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:41.119 So the prostate right now is in basically remission. It's 920 00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:45.519 not progressing, but the bones. That's this one thing because 921 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.480 of all the bones in your body. If not, you're 922 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:52.280 a jellyfish. And it's not a fun thing to go through. 923 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:58.119 And I really feel sympathy for Biden getting well, getting 924 00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:01.519 back to the health screening. He only has a unless 925 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:04.320 something that comes up. He only has a screening once 926 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.519 a year, and you know, that's all they usually do, 927 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.880 and with mine it was about every six weeks to 928 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:14.920 twelve weeks, and that's when they found out that it 929 00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:16.119 traveled to the bones. 930 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.960 So he can be tested in January. 931 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:21.639 It can hit him in February and they might not 932 00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.239 find to find out about it for a ten months, 933 00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:26.000 so as. 934 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:27.800 A cover up, they probably did. 935 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.519 But I give him the benefit of a doubt on 936 00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:34.719 the progression of this and we'll just see what happens. 937 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:37.320 You talk about the screen of the PSA test. 938 00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:41.920 Yeah, the PSA yeah, yeah, and plus the one where 939 00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:45.519 they knock you out and actually take samples if they 940 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.480 feel that there's something wrong with it. But the bone 941 00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:53.559 cancer doesn't show up on the PSA the way it 942 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:56.079 does for the prostate cancer. It's a whole different, whole 943 00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:57.159 different ballgame. 944 00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:01.159 That go through and the bone. The bone cancer is painful, 945 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:03.360 if I understand Mike prior conversation. 946 00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:06.559 Fun for you, it's not fun. It makes you feel 947 00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.400 older than what you really are. I mean the pain 948 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:11.920 that goes through different parts of the body. It's it's 949 00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:14.199 almost like you you did what Joe did years ago, 950 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:18.159 was running a marathon. You feel that way every day 951 00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:20.840 when you get up, and you hate to say that 952 00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.920 you're taking pain meds because that's. 953 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:23.280 What it is. 954 00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:26.039 But you got to tell you got to do what 955 00:52:26.119 --> 00:52:26.559 you got to do. 956 00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:30.880 And again with the OHC doctors, they treat you pretty well. 957 00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:31.400 Yeah. 958 00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:33.960 I haven't had any issues so far, but I just 959 00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:36.880 figured I thought that in relating to the fact that 960 00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:41.800 you know, he's had this and it's progressing. He might 961 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.519 he might still live well, not mentally, but he still 962 00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:47.960 might live for two or three years or more. 963 00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:51.719 Well. The reporting that I read about this particular aggressive 964 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.960 form of prostate cancer, it says five years survival rate 965 00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:56.440 of thirty to forty percent. 966 00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:00.800 Yeah, so I mean it's not like pain Graddy cancer. 967 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:04.639 No, no, no, that's a short term window right there. 968 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.119 And you know, let's face it, you and I can 969 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:11.440 agree Westside Jim. Cancer sucks, sucks, and we wouldn't. 970 00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:11.880 Find one more thing. 971 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:17.800 This morning's paper on the front page, the enquire Man 972 00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.920 Charged and Deputy's death finds fame and support. That totally 973 00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:25.199 disgusted me. I mean to have that, and I know 974 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:27.239 that they're just reporting news. 975 00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.280 But this just really pisses me off. 976 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.000 If I can use that word on the air, which 977 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:35.039 I just did. You did, fame and fame and support, 978 00:53:35.719 --> 00:53:39.119 I mean those people that support this guy and make 979 00:53:39.239 --> 00:53:44.239 him look famous and donate to his cause. I noticed 980 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:45.360 a place in hell for them. 981 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:47.639 Also. Yeah, I have to agree with you on that, 982 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:50.199 but the world's filled with crazy people, and the Internet 983 00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:52.480 allows each and every one of those crazies to get 984 00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:56.000 together and sort of echo chamber each other and make 985 00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:57.920 it seem like what they are doing is a good, 986 00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:00.480 decent and right thing to do. You're always going to 987 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:04.079 find someone who's sympathetic to your insanity these days. So 988 00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:06.360 thanks for thank you, and God bless you. 989 00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:06.639 Jim. 990 00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:08.920 You're always in my prayers. You always are. 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If if you've got 1021 00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:45.039 air CD talk station, then a happy Monday to you. 1022 00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:49.559 Uh excuse me over the local stories since I please 1023 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.199 investigate after a man got shot inside of a vehicle 1024 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:55.400 having a bond Hill early Saturday, nineteen hundred block of 1025 00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:59.239 Langdon Farm Drive about one twenty in the morning. Twenty 1026 00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:02.199 nine year old man undergoing treatment for the gunshot wound 1027 00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:07.400 to his left calf. He's at University since medical Center. 1028 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.079 According to Captain Stephen Bauer at the police He's expected 1029 00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:12.679 to recover, which is good. Victim told police he didn't 1030 00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:14.800 know why they targeted him and could not provide a 1031 00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:20.239 description of the shooter, according to the captain. Let us 1032 00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:23.199 see human ring remains found in Claremont County last month 1033 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:25.920 identified as a Felicity man who was reported missing more 1034 00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:29.480 than three years ago. Coroner's Office at remains were found 1035 00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:32.800 in fifteen hundred block of Barger Road in Washington Township 1036 00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:36.079 April nineteenth. DNA testing results confirmed the identity of the 1037 00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:42.159 remains Roger Schantz. Bruce family reported him missing in January 1038 00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:48.039 of twenty twenty two. During an investigation to Bruce's death, 1039 00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:51.400 Clama County Sheriff's Office said Washington Township resident Zachary Scott 1040 00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:53.519 called nine one one a couple of days before Bruce 1041 00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:56.440 was reported missing, claiming he had overdosed on drugs. And 1042 00:56:56.559 --> 00:57:00.519 was unresponsive in a vehicle. Scott said he administered narcan 1043 00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:03.719 than disconnected the call on a callback, Scott told dispatches 1044 00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:10.199 Bruce drove away after regaining consciousness. Detective searched the area 1045 00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:13.000 tried to find the vehicle Scott describe it never located 1046 00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:16.599 Scott or Bruce. When detectives interviewed Scott one day later, 1047 00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:19.519 they said he changed his story. Clarimont County Grand Jury 1048 00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:22.480 indicted him on one kind of involuntary manslaughtered, gross abuse 1049 00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:24.639 of a corpse, corrupting another with drugs, and tampering with 1050 00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:28.320 evidence in Bruce's death. Now his remains have been recovered. 1051 00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:34.199 According to Claimont County corner Brian Treon, this identification brings 1052 00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:36.440 a measure of closure to a tragic and prolonged period 1053 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:38.760 of uncertain Their thoughts are again with Bruce's family and 1054 00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:42.360 as they navigate this difficult time. Sheriff's office still investigating 1055 00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:48.039 the death. Anybody with information please call the Investigative Investigations 1056 00:57:48.119 --> 00:57:54.880 Unit JEEZ Greater since they bus service, they say making 1057 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.639 a significant advancement the introduction of bus rapid transit system. 1058 00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:04.679 They say the line Cincinnati with approximately forty other cities. 1059 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.960 Who've rolled out BRT systems which are designed to enhance 1060 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:12.679 the efficiency of bus travel, and I underscored this without 1061 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.079 the need for tracks or permanent infrastructure. Now hold that 1062 00:58:16.199 --> 00:58:22.559 thought for a minute. Chris Hauser, WKRC and MSN dot 1063 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:29.159 Com article. According to Brad Mason, Metro's director of Communications, 1064 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:32.280 they aim to improve the speed and efficiency of bus service. 1065 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:35.039 My favorite feature of this is the traffic signal priority, 1066 00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:36.920 where if a bus is coming to a traffic light, 1067 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:38.519 the light knows that the bus is coming and it 1068 00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:42.159 will give priority to the bus. Cities like Columbus and Cleveland, 1069 00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:46.320 Indianapolis have experienced economic development, he said. With this BRT system, 1070 00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:48.519 he said, they're seeing economic development from it happen. They're 1071 00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:51.039 seeing people move through their region differently than they used to, 1072 00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:54.880 so it's really expanding transportation options for people within the region. 1073 00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.599 Mason said Metro is experiencing ridership growth currently at one 1074 00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:03.760 hundred ten percent of the pre pandemic level, attributing this 1075 00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:07.880 to reinventing Metro program the shifting perceptions of bus transit 1076 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:11.559 beyond commuting to work or school. Now here's why I 1077 00:59:11.639 --> 00:59:14.840 said underscore that point about without the need for tracks 1078 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:19.559 or permanent infrastructure. Article concludes by saying construction on the 1079 00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:22.840 first BRT route along Renting Road is slated to begin 1080 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.719 next year, with an expected opening in twenty twenty seven, 1081 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:30.440 and they say the Hamilton Avenue cord Or anticipated to 1082 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:33.119 begin service the following year, though the design of bus 1083 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:37.840 only lanes is still underway, So maybe construction means bus 1084 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:42.719 only lanes. I don't know. But if it's a bus 1085 00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:46.000 I don't understand why you would need construction unless they 1086 00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:50.199 need more bus terminals or bus stops. Anyway, left to 1087 00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:52.440 speculate on that one, but it's coming six point thirty 1088 00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:54.360 five right now. 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They see rounds of showers and storms, 1117 01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:29.519 not severe though sixty eight to high tomorrow with an 1118 01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:31.679 overnight love of fifty eight with a possibility of a 1119 01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:34.880 few showers. Otherwise cloudy. Cloudy on Wednesday as well, and 1120 01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:38.400 additional showers are possible. Sixty seven for the high Wednesday, 1121 01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:40.639 about fifty three degrees. Right now, it is time for 1122 01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:42.599 a traffic update check from the. 1123 01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:45.400 U SEE Health Traffic Center. From pregnancy again, menopause to 1124 01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:48.480 healthy aging. The women's health experts that you see Health 1125 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.239 offer person of I's care with the newest treatments. Learn 1126 01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:54.000 more at you see health dot com. Forward slams women 1127 01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:56.719 Highway traffic in pretty good shape. I am starting to 1128 01:01:56.760 --> 01:01:59.639 see some break away sapn. Two seventy five between the 1129 01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:02.639 lore It's Burg ramp and the bridge. Thanks to the 1130 01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:05.639 ongoing construction. You can add a couple of extra minutes there. 1131 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:09.360 About ten seventy five's doing fine. Fans to Union Center 1132 01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:12.599 Chuck Ingram on fifty five krs, the talk station. 1133 01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:17.679 Sex forty here at fifty about KRCD talk station, Happy Monday, 1134 01:02:18.079 --> 01:02:20.079 Christopher Smith, then at seven to twenty every Monday for 1135 01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:22.800 the Smith Event. Love hearing from you five one, three, 1136 01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:27.360 two to three talk. Let's hear what Cleveland Owl's got 1137 01:02:27.480 --> 01:02:29.800 going on, Cleveland Owl, thanks for calling this morning. 1138 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:34.599 A good morning, and just wanted to let you know 1139 01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:41.440 that the BRT does require a significant change in the 1140 01:02:41.559 --> 01:02:48.840 configuration of whatever street the BRT is being instituted. Cleveland 1141 01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:52.599 did this in the early two thousands with Euclid Avenue. 1142 01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:59.360 Euclid used to be the Avenue of Millionaires and for years. 1143 01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:00.840 It had good on down. 1144 01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:07.440 The tubes as far as the appearance and the safety 1145 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:14.679 between downtown and the University Circle, and they instituted a BRT. 1146 01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:18.079 It took him about four years to build the special 1147 01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:24.199 lanes and the bus stops for the buses to be 1148 01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:28.599 able to institute what's called the Health Line that connects 1149 01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:34.880 downtown to both Cleveland Clinic and University hospitals. And it 1150 01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:40.519 really has turned the street around one hundred and eighty degrees. 1151 01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:45.199 It went from being a blight to an area of 1152 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:55.800 significant economic and has returns to its former not the 1153 01:03:56.000 --> 01:04:01.400 heights of glory of when the millionaires. Yeah, the Guild 1154 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:06.039 of the date's correct, but it has transformed the east 1155 01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:11.320 side between downtown and University Circle significantly. 1156 01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:13.760 Well that's great. I listen, you know, I always kind 1157 01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:16.239 of it's cynical and skeptical that anything the City of 1158 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:18.719 Cincinnati does by way of trying to transform itself is 1159 01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:20.880 gonna work. You know, I give you the street car, 1160 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:24.400 but and I imagine the traffic light sensors is part 1161 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.559 of the construction process that the bus can communicate with 1162 01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:29.679 the traffic lights. And I understand the need for bus stops. 1163 01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:33.519 But I'm happy here Cleveland, al that it's done. Wonders 1164 01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:37.119 for that community. So we'll keep our fingers crossed it 1165 01:04:37.159 --> 01:04:41.920 they don't screw it up down here. Al all right, 1166 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.320 you have a good well, thanks for the call man enlightening. 1167 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:48.519 It was all right, okay. And here I got a 1168 01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:53.719 thought question for you, Donald Trump on his exec or 1169 01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:56.360 his truth media account. Walmart should stop trying to blame 1170 01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:59.480 tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. 1171 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:02.400 Walmart made billions of dollars last year, far more than 1172 01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:06.639 expected between Walmart and China. They should eat the tariffs 1173 01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:10.199 all in caps and not charge the valued customers all 1174 01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:14.760 in caps anything. I'll be watching, and so will your customers. 1175 01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:15.280 Now. 1176 01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.239 When I first saw that, I was like, wait a second, 1177 01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:27.079 price controls, you're demanding they eat something? I mean, they 1178 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:29.960 compete out in the open world. If they raise their prices, 1179 01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:31.840 somebody may choose to go to someplace else. This is 1180 01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:37.559 a Walmart decision, but on the heels of but previously saying, 1181 01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:41.519 after causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade common Law announced that she 1182 01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:45.159 wants to institute socialist price controls. Her plan is very 1183 01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:48.599 dangerous because it may sound good politically. This is communist, 1184 01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:52.559 this is Marxist, this is fascist. So how can you 1185 01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:57.559 reconcile those two points? And the profit margin at Walmart? 1186 01:05:57.599 --> 01:05:59.559 You know, say what you want about Walmart. They are 1187 01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:03.599 not centers of fat profit margins. Wall Street Journal reporting 1188 01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:07.880 it's three percent, actually below three percent, pointing out there's 1189 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.880 not a whole lot of resumed room to absorb higher 1190 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:12.159 costs in the tariffs. And then they point to the competition, 1191 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.559 because of course Walmart's got competition, and one of the 1192 01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.840 things that made it so successful is that it's well 1193 01:06:18.920 --> 01:06:21.920 comparatively lower prices over the years. That's what built the 1194 01:06:22.039 --> 01:06:29.199 empire quantit large quantity of small profit margins. So now 1195 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:33.079 Donald Trump's telling Walmart how to run its business, and 1196 01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:37.559 in a pretty bold statement too, I will be watching, 1197 01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:40.599 and so you're, yeah, let the customers decide. I just 1198 01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:43.000 found it impossible to reconcile that, and it doesn't sound 1199 01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:44.840 like a very conservative thing to do. I just think, 1200 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.000 you know, it's the reality is is what everyone who 1201 01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:49.519 pointed out tariffs will do. It ends up raising the 1202 01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:51.880 prices on things. Now, whether we have a good outcome 1203 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:54.800 in the final analysis from the tariffs or a bad outcome, 1204 01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:57.199 I'm willing to wait around and find out, because there 1205 01:06:57.280 --> 01:07:01.079 they are. Nobody consulted Brian tom before the tariffs went on, 1206 01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:04.119 and he did promise them campaign pledge he was going 1207 01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:06.719 to put impose tariffs. So we're getting what we voted 1208 01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:10.280 for in that regard. And he's already made some headway 1209 01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.719 with various countries negotiating deals to eliminate the tariffs or 1210 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:16.199 otherwise come up with something that's palatable to both countries 1211 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:20.119 China for one. He's negotiating with China with the with 1212 01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:25.199 the tariff pause. So it's playing out and I've seen 1213 01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:27.760 other articles talking about, well, the Trump tariffs aren't bearing 1214 01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:29.920 fruit in the form of additional investments in business, and 1215 01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.119 how quickly do you think you can build a giant factory? 1216 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:35.920 You know, the decision to build the factory is one thing, 1217 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:39.000 but it actually starting and starting to employ construction workers 1218 01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:41.440 and ultimately workers who will be working at that any 1219 01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:46.239 given facility. That does take some time. So people looking 1220 01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:49.480 for instant gratification quite often disappointed. And I'm still got 1221 01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:51.599 my popcorn out waiting to see where tariffs go. But 1222 01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:56.480 I thought a little bit, I don't know what the 1223 01:07:56.519 --> 01:07:59.840 word is ridiculous that he would demand the Walmart not 1224 01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:05.800 raise its prices. Does seem have been inconsistent six forty six. 1225 01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:08.360 If you five KR see the talk stations, stick around. 1226 01:08:08.599 --> 01:08:10.519 I hope you can anyway. And the other thing you 1227 01:08:10.559 --> 01:08:12.119 need you to do is get on into twenty two three, 1228 01:08:12.280 --> 01:08:14.440 a route forty two between Mason and Leven and the finance, 1229 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:16.680 gun shop and indoor ranger. We're going to run into 1230 01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:19.199 and you know, with Father's Day just around the corner, 1231 01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:21.840 you can get out there and maybe get a gift 1232 01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:26.199 for Dad, spend some quality time with dad. For the 1233 01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:28.520 gun enthusiasts or the person thinking about learning more, twenty 1234 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:30.640 two three is the place to head on over to 1235 01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:33.560 and pick up a gift card. Maybe you can get 1236 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:35.479 them a membership, or maybe you can get them a 1237 01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:40.600 class knowledgeable sales floor staff and helpful range safety officers. 1238 01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:43.920 It's a very safe and very clean range. I've been 1239 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:46.520 out there many many times, and they'll take great care 1240 01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:48.239 of you out there. They even have a gunsmith as well, 1241 01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:51.359 huge selection of firearms. Maybe get Dad a firearm for 1242 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:54.079 his Father's Day gift. Twenty two three are Route forty 1243 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.840 two between Mason and Lebanon. Online it's the number twenty 1244 01:08:56.880 --> 01:08:59.279 two followed by the word three spelled out twenty two 1245 01:08:59.319 --> 01:09:04.560 to three fifty five KRC dot com it's six fifty 1246 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:08.159 come up at six fifty one fifty five KRC Detox station. Nappyma, nay. 1247 01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:11.600 I'm off tomorrow, Gary Jeff Walker's covering former. I'm getting 1248 01:09:11.640 --> 01:09:15.039 my glaucoma laser blast this afternoon. So last time I 1249 01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:16.960 did that, he had a difficult time reading with the 1250 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:19.960 eye that got blasted. So since I do read for 1251 01:09:20.039 --> 01:09:23.039 a living, I'm gonna take tomorrow if out an abundance 1252 01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:24.960 of cautions. So Gary Jeff, thank you for covering for 1253 01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:27.720 me tomorrow morning. I thought this was a joke, but 1254 01:09:27.800 --> 01:09:31.640 apparently it's not. And I got a tremendous amount of 1255 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:34.760 respect for High Republican Warren Davidson. He's a good man, 1256 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:41.920 but I did get a chuckle out of this. He 1257 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:46.560 introduced legislation to direct the National Institutes of Help to 1258 01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:52.720 investigate the psychological and social roots of Trump Derangement syndrome, 1259 01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:59.079 presented the Trump Derangent Syndrome Research Act of twenty twenty five, 1260 01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:02.279 which it's reported, is intended to shed a light on 1261 01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:05.800 what has been a serious cultural affliction, described as an intense, 1262 01:10:05.960 --> 01:10:09.760 irrational hysteria triggered by the mention of Donald Trump's name. 1263 01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:14.319 The mere mentioned TDS become a catch all for unhinged 1264 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:17.000 reactions of his critics, whether it comes from a form 1265 01:10:17.079 --> 01:10:21.800 of spittle flecked blue hair rants, protest effigies, or social 1266 01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:26.119 media meltdowns. Props to Stephen Watson overt Modernity News for 1267 01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:29.479 that verbage, but it is a real thing. Apparently co 1268 01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:34.000 sponsored by Alabama Representative Barrymore, Apparently, this research will look 1269 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:38.880 to explain why leftists lose their collective minds over Donald Trump. 1270 01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:45.720 Legislation identifies teds as quote the acute onset of paranoia 1271 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:51.279 in otherwise normal persons reacting to Trump's policies, presidency, or 1272 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:56.560 even very existence, manifesting in quote verbal expressions of intense 1273 01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:00.520 hostility close quote and even quote overt acts of aggression 1274 01:11:00.640 --> 01:11:07.479 and violence close quote against his supporters. Let's explain here 1275 01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:10.319 the evil points the real world consequences. For example, the 1276 01:11:10.359 --> 01:11:14.680 two assassination attempts on Trump. Davidson in a statement, this 1277 01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:18.600 isn't just about hurt feelings. TDS has divided families, fueled 1278 01:11:18.680 --> 01:11:22.359 nationwide violence, and turned dinner parties into screaming matches. The 1279 01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:27.840 NIH needs to study this so we can find solutions. Well, 1280 01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:30.399 I think the problem is primarily one of the Internet 1281 01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:33.000 and social media and the echo chamber that people find 1282 01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:36.760 themselves in. I mean, if you got one crazy person 1283 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:39.359 screaming about Donald Trump's going to end the world, there 1284 01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:41.760 are an other crazy, crazy people out there in the 1285 01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:43.720 world who might share that, and then they run into 1286 01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.640 each other and they hang out together and feed this 1287 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:53.359 this this, well, we'll call it TDS. And how many 1288 01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:55.079 and you know, this is a reflection of how many 1289 01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:57.960 years that evil orange man has been ingrained into the 1290 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:00.800 hearts and minds of so many people via the mainstream media, 1291 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:03.079 who we find out has been lying to us over 1292 01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:06.720 and over and over and over again about a variety 1293 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:14.159 of topics. But do we really need to pay for 1294 01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:19.119 the NIH to study this. Apparently they tried this in Minnesota. 1295 01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:23.319 March of this year, five Minnesota state Republicans pushed the 1296 01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.800 build to classify TDS as a mental illness in the state, 1297 01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:32.439 defining it as quote Trump induced general hysteria close quote. 1298 01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:39.039 The effort didn't work. Democrat has called it possibly the 1299 01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:41.720 worst bill in Minnesota history and an affront to speech. 1300 01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:44.920 Now Warren Davidson bill apparently that takes a different look 1301 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:47.359 at it, framing TDS as a public health issue and 1302 01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:52.319 worthy of scrutiny by the NIH, and exists calling for 1303 01:12:52.760 --> 01:12:57.079 reallocating existing NIH funds i e. Note, New taxpayer dollars 1304 01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:02.079 away from what Davison described as ludicrous studies like giving 1305 01:13:02.199 --> 01:13:08.520 meth to cats, towards something relevant to everyday Americans. It 1306 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:11.359 also tasked the NIH wood probing the media's role in 1307 01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:16.880 amplifying this syndrome, analyzing its impact on political polarization, and 1308 01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:24.000 hunting for patient zero of the phenomenon. I'd like to 1309 01:13:24.079 --> 01:13:26.079 have Congress and Davidson on to see if this is 1310 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:28.920 he's if he's really serious about this, or this is 1311 01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:32.479 just one of those legislations to illustrate something and make 1312 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:36.000 a point rather than actually getting it passed, and since 1313 01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:38.800 it's not part of the reconciliation process, he's going to 1314 01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:41.960 have to get a sizeable number of Democrats that go 1315 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:46.119 along with it. Symbolic probably six poin fifty five fifty 1316 01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:48.319 five KCD talk station. If we have a little talk 1317 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:49.760 about off top of the our news, then we get 1318 01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:51.640 Christopher smith AMU at seven twenty. I sure hope you 1319 01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:53.199 can stick around from. 1320 01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:55.680 A full rundown and the biggest ten lines there's minutes 1321 01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:57.279 away at the top of the hour. 1322 01:13:57.319 --> 01:13:59.680 I'm giving you a fact now, Americans should. 1323 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:02.119 Have five krs the talk station. 1324 01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:05.800 This report is sponsored by Miami Valley Gaming. 1325 01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:08.600 That's the old Trump doess negotiate every day. 1326 01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:11.000 Evan's an extremely small businessman. 1327 01:14:11.119 --> 01:14:32.039 Fifty five krs the talk station seven oh six fifty 1328 01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:36.039 five kerr CD talk station. Brian Thomas here, I'm glad 1329 01:14:36.079 --> 01:14:38.159 to be wishing everybody a happy Monday. I hope you 1330 01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.079 had a wonderful weekend. In finding phone calls, we have 1331 01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:43.279 time before Christopher Smithman joins a program at seven to 1332 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:45.560 twenty for the Smith Event. Fast forward an hour Monday 1333 01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:49.199 Monday with Brian James Moody's credit rating. UH Finally Moody's 1334 01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:51.560 got around dropping our credit rating here in the United 1335 01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:54.520 States with good reason. Starter home market in the Cincinnati 1336 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:57.600 we'll talk about that with Brian and apparently big summer 1337 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.680 vacations are out of style. It can only imagine why 1338 01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:02.479 that might be the case. Then we go to eight 1339 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:05.600 forty Tim Hester, who's a Cincinni native and Air Force 1340 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:08.079 veteran served in a rock. Thank you, Tim for your 1341 01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:10.880 service to our country. There's a PBS documentary that's coming 1342 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:14.960 to town, Defying Death on the Atlantic, which is a 1343 01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.720 really kind of wild story. If you asked me to 1344 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:22.279 sign up for a three thousand mile ocean rowing race, 1345 01:15:23.039 --> 01:15:25.960 I would be a definite no on that. But the 1346 01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:28.239 documentary is the story of a four man rowing team 1347 01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:30.920 that participated in that event. The World's Toughest row is 1348 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.800 what that race is called. Air Force veteran the team 1349 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:41.720 they call themselves Team Fight or Oar Die. Twenty twenty 1350 01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:44.920 two race got hit by a thirty foot swell, a 1351 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.640 boat capsize and they were left stranded eight hundred miles 1352 01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:50.079 from the nearest land. So that's it tells the story 1353 01:15:50.119 --> 01:15:51.760 of that. So we'll hear about the details on that 1354 01:15:52.640 --> 01:15:57.680 from Tim at eight forty back over to you know, 1355 01:15:57.760 --> 01:15:59.840 the first story we're going to be talking about with 1356 01:16:02.520 --> 01:16:06.239 Monday mondays Brian James. The fact that Moody's downgraded our 1357 01:16:06.279 --> 01:16:09.520 credit rating. The reason we are spending ourselves into oblivion. 1358 01:16:10.439 --> 01:16:13.359 It's our debt. It keeps growing and growing and growing. 1359 01:16:13.880 --> 01:16:18.920 And sadly, the GOP big beautiful bill it passed out 1360 01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:20.840 of the House Budget Committee apparently does little to do 1361 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:24.000 that does not cut the deficit at really at all. 1362 01:16:24.119 --> 01:16:28.319 In fact, it makes it bigger. Current proposal will increase 1363 01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:32.000 projected budget deficits by nearly three trillion dollars through twenty 1364 01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:34.960 thirty four, locking in tax cuts and spending increases that 1365 01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:40.319 outweigh reductions and spending on Medicaid nutrition assistance. Now there's 1366 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:42.399 a bunch of stumbling blocks going on, and they remain. 1367 01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:46.479 Now this did get advanced out of committee. The four 1368 01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:53.560 Republican holdouts, the fiscally responsible for just voted present, so 1369 01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:59.119 that it was seventeen to sixteen speakers. That he expects 1370 01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:02.479 they have productions reductive discussions with various factions of the House, 1371 01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:05.640 because there are moderate factions, so called moderate Republicans, who 1372 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:08.920 are all in favor of the big spending that has 1373 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:11.920 been implemented for a long time. They wanted to continue us, 1374 01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:15.039 notably in the areas of Medicaid and the Green New 1375 01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:18.039 Deal crap from the so called Inflation Reduction Act. It's 1376 01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:20.439 in my state. My state's going to benefit from it, 1377 01:17:20.520 --> 01:17:26.199 so I want that project to remain. Anyway, the four 1378 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.119 people that I mentioned, the fiscal hawks, cratered the whole 1379 01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:35.279 thing on Friday because of the twenty twenty nine kick 1380 01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:37.920 in date for work requirement for Medicaid. That was one 1381 01:17:37.960 --> 01:17:39.840 of them. Why is it so far down the road? 1382 01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.560 Of course, they're all worried about the work requirement would 1383 01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:45.880 be removed sometime between now and then with follow up 1384 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:51.159 legislation or action. Green energy subsidies also a subject matter 1385 01:17:51.239 --> 01:17:54.399 of their concern because again these so called moderate Republicans 1386 01:17:54.439 --> 01:17:57.239 that keep pushing to keep those green energy subsidies in place. 1387 01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:02.439 So they say, lawmakers have signal that some of the 1388 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:05.920 changes that are being pressed on by these conservatives will 1389 01:18:05.960 --> 01:18:09.680 be introduced as amendments in the House Rules Committee, so 1390 01:18:09.800 --> 01:18:12.079 they're not in this current framework that was voted on 1391 01:18:12.239 --> 01:18:18.560 last night. Chip Roy among the fiscal Hawks, along with 1392 01:18:18.720 --> 01:18:22.800 Ralph Norman Roy from Texas Norman from South Carolina. They're 1393 01:18:22.840 --> 01:18:27.039 also in the Rules Committee where these amendments will be introduced. Now, 1394 01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:29.279 just because you're going to introduce some amendment the same, 1395 01:18:29.560 --> 01:18:32.720 you know, numerical realities exist. If you've got a bunch 1396 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.239 of moderate Republicans going along with the Democrats, they might 1397 01:18:35.319 --> 01:18:38.800 vote noah any given amendment to help write the ship 1398 01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:44.439 of fiscal disaster that this bill continues, they say it 1399 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:47.199 on the bill will now move. Apparently they did get 1400 01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:51.039 somerect some concessions, at least I get this impression from 1401 01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:53.159 Roy's statement. He said tonight, after a great deal of 1402 01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:55.239 work and engagement over the weekend, the Budget Committee advanced 1403 01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:59.319 a reconciliation bill that lays the foundation for much needed 1404 01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:03.399 tax really border secured, important spending reductions and reforms. Importantly, 1405 01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:07.920 the bill will now move Medicaid work requirements forward and 1406 01:19:08.119 --> 01:19:11.319 reduces the availability of future subsidies under the Green New Scan. 1407 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:14.479 That's all the details that were provided. But since some 1408 01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:21.239 of these I guess, Fox News reporting that they got 1409 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:25.479 assurances about these I guess amendments being introduced in the 1410 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:29.159 Rules Committee in writing, but that doesn't mean that they're 1411 01:19:29.159 --> 01:19:32.359 going to be included in the ultimate Big beautiful bill. 1412 01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:36.720 House Committee passed the framework earlier this year with instructions 1413 01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:40.600 to these various committees to get Trump's agenda in line 1414 01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:44.439 and legislated. Then the House committees began crafting their policies, 1415 01:19:44.479 --> 01:19:46.359 which is how you end up with them being packed 1416 01:19:46.359 --> 01:19:48.600 in together into this massive bill that they have to 1417 01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:53.520 pass by reconciliation. So reconciliation requires the subject matter to 1418 01:19:53.560 --> 01:19:58.560 be limited to federal spending, tax and the national debt. 1419 01:19:58.920 --> 01:20:02.159 A golden opportunity to pairback are spending. It seems to 1420 01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:10.239 me though it's being squandered. Now what stick? What are 1421 01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:15.039 the sticking points? Most notably, the salt cap is one 1422 01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:17.079 of them. You got blue states and you have Republicans 1423 01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:19.319 in blue states where the taxation rate is off the 1424 01:20:19.479 --> 01:20:22.319 charts now back in twenty seventeen or the Trump tax cuts, 1425 01:20:22.359 --> 01:20:26.239 they capped that deducting interest and local taxes at ten 1426 01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:29.960 thousand dollars. So naturally in a state the taxes the 1427 01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:32.560 hell out of people New York, New Jersey, California, and 1428 01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:35.359 the Republicans are there they want the salt tax cap 1429 01:20:35.439 --> 01:20:40.359 to be increased, and substantially feeding the fire of the 1430 01:20:40.399 --> 01:20:43.920 Democrats argument that these are all about protecting the wealthy. 1431 01:20:44.680 --> 01:20:47.560 Members of the Salt Caucus have floated a sixty two 1432 01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:50.760 thousand dollars cap for single filers and one hundred and 1433 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:54.880 twenty four thousand cap for joint filers as it's currently drafted, 1434 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:57.880 I have read that hasn't been confirmed. They raised it 1435 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:01.159 to thirty thousand dollars for individe jewels making four hundred 1436 01:21:01.199 --> 01:21:03.560 thousand or less, and then decreasing the cab for those 1437 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:06.760 who exceed the income ceiling. Now who among us has 1438 01:21:06.800 --> 01:21:09.039 sixty two to one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars 1439 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:12.199 worth of deductions to tack on in your federal filing? 1440 01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:18.399 And most notably, the Salt cabs primarily benefit wealthier filers 1441 01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:21.840 and does nothing more than subsidized Blue states, removing any 1442 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:25.239 incentive for them to lower their own tax burdens. That's 1443 01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:28.399 the solution to it, Blue States, Quit taxing the hell 1444 01:21:28.439 --> 01:21:30.720 out of your citizenry. Lower those taxes. They don't have 1445 01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:32.600 to worry about. Where the salt tax are cut is 1446 01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:35.399 And why should we hear no hire anybody else out 1447 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:39.399 in the United States be subsidizing these folks, giving them 1448 01:21:40.520 --> 01:21:49.399 a write off for their state taxes. Of course, the 1449 01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:53.680 fiscally responsible and conservatives of pushing GOP leaders to speed 1450 01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:56.199 up the start date for the work requirement for Medicaid 1451 01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:00.920 as written, or at least up until yes yesterday, may 1452 01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:03.359 have changed based upon what chip Roy had to say. 1453 01:22:03.800 --> 01:22:06.279 The work requirement kicks in in twenty twenty nine, a 1454 01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:15.000 forty year delay. That provision requires childless adults age nineteen 1455 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.640 to sixty four years old to prove that they work, 1456 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:23.560 go to school, or volunteer eighty hours a month. It's 1457 01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:26.039 a pretty small ass considering the typical work week for 1458 01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:27.760 the regular Joe out in the world or Jane as 1459 01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:29.760 the case may be forty hours a week, So eighty 1460 01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.560 hours for an entire month, and you can go to school, 1461 01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:35.560 trade school. That's part of the equation, and you'll have 1462 01:22:35.640 --> 01:22:40.039 a career opportunity after that. And then, of course, the 1463 01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:42.800 green energy tax credit is a subject of disputes between 1464 01:22:42.880 --> 01:22:49.159 again I'm infighting between the Republicans. Document passed by the 1465 01:22:49.199 --> 01:22:51.560 Ways and Means Committee phases out tax credits for solar, 1466 01:22:51.600 --> 01:22:54.279 winter and nuclear projects that come online between twenty twenty 1467 01:22:54.359 --> 01:22:57.079 nine and twenty thirty two. Products that start producing energy 1468 01:22:57.119 --> 01:22:58.960 in twenty twenty nine can get an eighty percent of 1469 01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:01.399 the credit of those that join the grid in twenty 1470 01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:04.520 thirty one forty percent. But all this is brought about 1471 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:08.199 by the Inflation Reduction Act, and are just bothered because 1472 01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:10.880 these cuts, these terroriffs, these incentives all mean that the 1473 01:23:11.039 --> 01:23:14.479 business model itself, this whole concept of green and green 1474 01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:17.920 energy would not be something anybody would embrace because of course, 1475 01:23:18.199 --> 01:23:22.600 well the math just doesn't work out. But of course 1476 01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:25.560 those reds are those those red state Republicans, even in 1477 01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:29.399 red states, are beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives. 1478 01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:33.840 So they're willing to turn their back on the typical 1479 01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.640 Republican platform in mantra, which is, no, we shouldn't be 1480 01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:39.720 funding these green boon doggles. But if the boon doggles 1481 01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:42.560 in my backyard, oh, I'm gonna fight tooth and nail 1482 01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:47.119 over it. Publican party can't get its act together. I 1483 01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:49.000 feel like I'm watching something that would go on in 1484 01:23:49.159 --> 01:23:53.720 Columbus as I watch these arguments unfold. Stick around Christopher 1485 01:23:53.760 --> 01:23:56.399 Smithman and coming up next. First word for QC kinetics. 1486 01:23:56.439 --> 01:23:58.720 You living with pain, knee pain, hip pain, back pain, 1487 01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:01.159 You don't necessarily have to live with it. You've probably 1488 01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:03.199 been talking to your doctor about it, maybe pain meds. 1489 01:24:03.239 --> 01:24:06.159 Maybe the doctor has mentioned the idea of surgery. 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That's five three zero zero. 1509 01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.039 One radio station. 1510 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.640 The last thing anyone wants, it's. 1511 01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:14.079 Seven twenty coming up at seven twenty one of it. 1512 01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:16.800 If about CAERCB talk station, a point in time during 1513 01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:19.199 the week I always look forward to because now we 1514 01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:20.680 get to hear from the former vice mayor of the 1515 01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:23.479 City of Cincinnati, dear friend of mine and the listening audience, 1516 01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:26.239 Christopher Smith Aman for the Smither event. Welcome back, Christopher. 1517 01:25:26.439 --> 01:25:27.600 How was your weekend, my friend? 1518 01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:30.039 My weekend was okay. 1519 01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:30.359 Man. 1520 01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:33.560 I think I've been open that I provide a lot 1521 01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:37.960 of care for my mom, but you know, I'm honored 1522 01:25:38.279 --> 01:25:40.560 to do it, and you know I share with I'm 1523 01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:44.079 sure you have many listeners out there who are doing 1524 01:25:44.359 --> 01:25:46.920 or have done the same thing. So just a part 1525 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:48.199 of part of my life. 1526 01:25:48.279 --> 01:25:48.439 Now. 1527 01:25:48.840 --> 01:25:50.880 Well, ma, I did have I had a nice had 1528 01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:51.600 a nice weekend. 1529 01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:55.119 Good to hear that. And I'm not going to ask 1530 01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:57.600 how old your mother is. I know she's getting up 1531 01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:01.399 in years. But you've always had such you know, great 1532 01:26:01.479 --> 01:26:04.319 stories about how blessed you were to grow up with 1533 01:26:04.399 --> 01:26:06.079 your mother and your father. I mean the fact that 1534 01:26:06.119 --> 01:26:07.760 you were so lucky that you have a mother is 1535 01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:10.920 loving and caring and supportive that she was over the years, 1536 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:13.479 and so I guess it's time to pay it back, man, 1537 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:15.000 at least to the extent you can. 1538 01:26:16.600 --> 01:26:17.239 No one hundred. 1539 01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:20.640 I mean I promised. I can't speak from other siblings, 1540 01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:25.439 but they're they're helping too. But you know, I promised 1541 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:27.800 my dad that, you know, as he said, please take 1542 01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:31.920 care Barbara, you know, in the in the last call 1543 01:26:32.039 --> 01:26:35.640 it days of his life where he was conscious, and 1544 01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:38.359 you know, we do this. It's about paying it back. 1545 01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:41.800 And and I encourage anybody there. You know, you don't 1546 01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:45.000 want to have any regrets, and so you don't want 1547 01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:48.159 to be that sibling that doesn't carry their weight. 1548 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:50.439 You know, you just will be. 1549 01:26:51.119 --> 01:26:54.199 It will just haunt you for the rest of your life. 1550 01:26:54.319 --> 01:26:57.399 So I love and again I'm sincere. I'm honored to 1551 01:26:57.760 --> 01:26:59.880 be a part of it. Brian Thomas, I know you are. 1552 01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:00.800 I know you are. 1553 01:27:01.760 --> 01:27:04.800 So what else I want to start off by just saying, 1554 01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:09.520 you know, my heart goes out to anyone who has cancer. 1555 01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:16.560 So the announcement that President Biden has cancer, that it 1556 01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:21.239 has metastasized and has bones. I heard your interview with 1557 01:27:22.479 --> 01:27:29.239 Westside Jim and him providing insight. So my heart goes 1558 01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:31.840 out to the family and I just want to say 1559 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:37.279 that publicly, but it still will not take away from 1560 01:27:37.399 --> 01:27:43.680 me discussing what I think in my lifetime was the 1561 01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:47.560 greatest cover up about the health status of a president, 1562 01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:52.960 a sitting president. And what is mind blowing for me, 1563 01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:59.680 Brian Thomas, is the media's cooperation with it. So you 1564 01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:04.359 have a vice president, you have congressional members, you have senators, 1565 01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:07.960 and then you have the media. And when you have 1566 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:13.079 those White House briefings, no one is asking why the 1567 01:28:13.199 --> 01:28:18.039 president is falling down. There's nothing there. He just falls down. 1568 01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:22.840 Why can't he keep his sentence structures or his thoughts together? 1569 01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:27.479 His mumbling, you know, the bunny rabbit thing that we 1570 01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:31.119 all saw, you know, him falling down the steps coming 1571 01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:34.079 out of Air Force One. It was like the media 1572 01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:38.079 continued to say, your eyes, don't believe them, don't believe 1573 01:28:38.119 --> 01:28:42.079 your ears. He's absolutely healthy. And Brian Thomas, you talked 1574 01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:46.560 about this for years and for years, Brian Thomas, you 1575 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:49.119 talked about it. It wasn't like, oh, one off, You're like, 1576 01:28:49.479 --> 01:28:53.000 here's something serious going on. And in the middle of 1577 01:28:53.079 --> 01:28:55.159 all of this, I remember you talking like, hey man, 1578 01:28:55.479 --> 01:28:58.800 I'm caring. I'm caring for my own dad. It's not 1579 01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:02.079 like you personally only weren't in it yourself. And I 1580 01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:05.279 remember one morning you were like, listen, I'm telling everybody 1581 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:08.800 I know what's going on with President Biden, and so 1582 01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:12.840 to hear you know, these different media people write books, 1583 01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:18.199 talk about them, act as if they're revisionists on their history. 1584 01:29:18.720 --> 01:29:21.000 For me, at the beginning of my event, I just 1585 01:29:21.079 --> 01:29:24.039 want to say that is hypocrisy at a level that 1586 01:29:24.119 --> 01:29:26.800 I've never ever spoken or seen before in my life. 1587 01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:31.119 And I really think that there should be congressional hearings, 1588 01:29:31.880 --> 01:29:37.800 you know, because the vice president had to know period staffers, 1589 01:29:37.960 --> 01:29:42.640 chief of staff, they had a responsibility to our constitution 1590 01:29:43.479 --> 01:29:47.640 to whistle blow read alert there's something not right here, 1591 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:50.680 and it is that serious to me, we can never 1592 01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:54.199 let it happen again. It was a conspiracy to cover 1593 01:29:54.399 --> 01:29:57.079 up the health status of a sitting president, who have 1594 01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:01.880 launched codes, who has launched codes well, who was running 1595 01:30:01.920 --> 01:30:05.359 the United States of America for the last four years 1596 01:30:05.479 --> 01:30:07.720 exactly the fair question. 1597 01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:08.600 That is a fair question. 1598 01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:11.560 Who was running the country. 1599 01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:14.199 I know seven thirty fifty five KR City talk station 1600 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:15.560 right time I was with former Vice mayor of the 1601 01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:18.079 City of Cincinnati, Christopher Smithman. And he's doing this smither event. 1602 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:20.119 Get it out of a system, Hey, Christopher. The other 1603 01:30:20.159 --> 01:30:24.439 thing is on that Biden's mental decline. You know, isn't 1604 01:30:24.439 --> 01:30:27.239 an interesting special counsel Robert Hurr. The audio from that 1605 01:30:27.439 --> 01:30:30.920 interview was finally released. We had the transcripts previously released. 1606 01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:34.960 But he did that interview over the his Biden's retention 1607 01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:38.159 of classified documents, keeping him in his garage and all 1608 01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:43.279 over the place. Found enough information to prosecute him for that, 1609 01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:46.720 but decided not to because he said he was obviously 1610 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:50.039 struggling cognitively had some mental issues. That interview took place 1611 01:30:50.079 --> 01:30:54.399 in October of twenty twenty three. I mean, you think 1612 01:30:54.439 --> 01:30:57.880 about that if you had any question up until that 1613 01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:00.479 point in time about whether or not he was having problems. 1614 01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:03.720 They decided not to prosecute him because he'd be viewed 1615 01:31:03.760 --> 01:31:07.439 as a feeble old man with a bad memory that 1616 01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:10.000 speaks volumes. And yet they still ran him to for 1617 01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:13.600 re election as president. And then it took that terrible 1618 01:31:13.680 --> 01:31:15.960 debate with Donald Trump to finally haven't pulled the plog 1619 01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:18.680 on him. And what was. 1620 01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:23.199 Amazing is when the special prosecutor came out with the 1621 01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.720 finding of I don't think I can prosecute his older 1622 01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:33.840 man because of his memory or as hell, the Democrats. 1623 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:40.239 Destroyed them, Yeah, they did. They did this, destroyed them, 1624 01:31:40.560 --> 01:31:43.000 the same Democrats who could see for themselves every time 1625 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:45.239 they were around the president that he was struggling on 1626 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:49.399 a number of ways, and then ask this, we just 1627 01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:52.439 recently found out that they used the auto pen on 1628 01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:56.279 just a multitude of occasions. Joe Biden didn't actually sign 1629 01:31:56.359 --> 01:31:58.640 executive orders. They had a machine that signed it for him. 1630 01:31:58.680 --> 01:32:00.840 Going back to your question, who was who was calling 1631 01:32:00.920 --> 01:32:03.760 the shots? If Biden's sitting over in a corner, drooling 1632 01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:05.680 on himself, not aware of what's going on, and he 1633 01:32:05.800 --> 01:32:07.640 kind of gave us an indication that's pretty much what 1634 01:32:07.680 --> 01:32:11.680 he was doing. Who made the decision to pen his 1635 01:32:11.800 --> 01:32:13.920 name there? And isn't that really kind of forgery if 1636 01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:16.800 that directive didn't come directly from the United States President? 1637 01:32:18.000 --> 01:32:23.279 One hundred percent? And their lives conspiracy, all the pardons, 1638 01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.640 all the discussions that were happening around student loan forgiveness 1639 01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:31.399 as just these low hanging fruits things that he continued 1640 01:32:31.439 --> 01:32:38.199 to announce. Who was actually running the government. Congress should 1641 01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:41.479 have acted. They didn't. They didn't. They were they were 1642 01:32:41.680 --> 01:32:48.039 absolutely absent from their responsibility, and there needs to be 1643 01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:52.000 a deep investigation and people need to be held accountable. 1644 01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:55.000 It can't be just like let's sweep fit under the rub. 1645 01:32:55.319 --> 01:32:59.800 If you heard Democratic leaders Brian Thomas over the weekend, 1646 01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:03.000 they all have the talking point, let's just move forward, 1647 01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:08.399 let's just move forward. How can I move forward? And 1648 01:33:09.119 --> 01:33:13.920 I'm not exaggerating that. Even in my own family, when 1649 01:33:14.039 --> 01:33:18.159 I would raise the issue about the health status of 1650 01:33:18.439 --> 01:33:22.720 President Biden, I had family members that wanted to cancel 1651 01:33:22.840 --> 01:33:26.039 me just because I would. I mean, you were taking 1652 01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:28.760 a big risk, Brian Thomas, at the time when you 1653 01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:31.520 were saying, hey, there's something wrong with the president, let's 1654 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:35.319 not forget that the world was not on board. And 1655 01:33:35.680 --> 01:33:39.479 remember the g seventh trip when the President just wandered 1656 01:33:39.520 --> 01:33:42.880 off and the French president had to go over and 1657 01:33:43.000 --> 01:33:46.159 pull him back, like where you going? People were like, 1658 01:33:46.279 --> 01:33:49.319 oh that really, that really didn't happen. He was really 1659 01:33:49.399 --> 01:33:52.520 over trying to see the person who parachuted. In My 1660 01:33:52.680 --> 01:33:56.920 point to you is that families were destroyed because there 1661 01:33:57.000 --> 01:33:59.840 was someone in the family that had the gall to 1662 01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:03.439 question the health status of Biden, and they viewed it 1663 01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:07.720 as a political attack, not people who were saying, I'm 1664 01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:12.760 concerned about the presidency, not the person. I'm concerned about 1665 01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:16.560 the constitution. And I think it's fair for any of 1666 01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:19.880 us to go back and review all those four years 1667 01:34:20.199 --> 01:34:24.199 to figure out when and where was the president impaired 1668 01:34:24.520 --> 01:34:28.199 and who exactly was running the United States of America, 1669 01:34:28.359 --> 01:34:30.359 because we know it was in President Biden. 1670 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.840 You're right, and you know as you as one contemplates 1671 01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:37.920 the idea that family members, blood relatives refuse to speak 1672 01:34:37.960 --> 01:34:41.840 to each other and otherwise severed ties based upon someone's 1673 01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:46.000 comments about how fragile Joe Biden came across, or someone's 1674 01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:48.520 maybe even pro Trump comments, going back to that Trump 1675 01:34:48.640 --> 01:34:53.439 arrangement syndrome, that is that that's a sorry state of 1676 01:34:53.520 --> 01:34:57.279 familiar relationships right there. That's just how shaky a ground 1677 01:34:57.319 --> 01:34:59.119 they are that you were going to just ignore and 1678 01:34:59.239 --> 01:35:01.560 otherwise ast your size a family member because of a 1679 01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:05.560 random political statement you're gonna let Donald Trump get under 1680 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:09.439 your skin that much, or a statement that maybe suggestive 1681 01:35:09.640 --> 01:35:12.680 of your support of Trump by making a comment about 1682 01:35:12.800 --> 01:35:15.960 Joe Biden's frailty, that's going to cause you to alienate 1683 01:35:16.039 --> 01:35:19.039 someone that's sad, that is really sad. 1684 01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:23.439 And it happened all over the current And imagine what 1685 01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:27.079 those family members are thinking now. It was all a lie. 1686 01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:31.520 CNN was lyne to me, MSNBC was lyne to me. 1687 01:35:32.039 --> 01:35:37.560 Bloomberg News, Financial News, they were lying to us, telling 1688 01:35:37.720 --> 01:35:41.600 us that if you even questioned it had you were 1689 01:35:41.640 --> 01:35:46.359 a racist, you were a narcissist, that you just had 1690 01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:49.680 to be supporting Trump. If you said, hey, man, what's 1691 01:35:49.760 --> 01:35:52.640 going on with President Biden? It didn't matter who the 1692 01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:56.960 Democratic nominee was. And by the way, that is ultimately 1693 01:35:57.159 --> 01:36:00.960 what destroyed Vice President Harrick. There were people out there 1694 01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:04.159 that said, one, she lounched her campaign way too late 1695 01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:08.520 because the Biden family, led by probably Jill Biden, the 1696 01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:11.359 first lady, kept her husband in the race too long, 1697 01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:15.560 and the Vice president didn't stand up like she was 1698 01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:17.840 in a very tough spot. I want to say that 1699 01:36:18.279 --> 01:36:22.199 from a politician, like it's like saying John Cranley is 1700 01:36:22.319 --> 01:36:26.319 really sick. I'm the vice mayor and for some reason, 1701 01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:28.279 and he's the person that has given. 1702 01:36:28.119 --> 01:36:28.560 Me the power. 1703 01:36:28.680 --> 01:36:31.840 My power comes through the presidency, and now I'm in 1704 01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:34.119 this tough spot where I'm going. Oh my god, if 1705 01:36:34.159 --> 01:36:38.239 I tell the truth that the president is impaired, the 1706 01:36:38.319 --> 01:36:40.560 Democrats are going to destroy me just like they did 1707 01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:44.760 her or I'm talking about the special prosecutor or. She 1708 01:36:44.920 --> 01:36:47.199 turns around and says, no, I'm just going to ignore 1709 01:36:47.319 --> 01:36:50.319 this and try to run. I believe that the tension 1710 01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:54.880 between the Hearents camp and the Biden camp was centered 1711 01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:59.199 around this conspiracy that President Biden really wasn't running the 1712 01:36:59.239 --> 01:37:00.479 country and she knew it. 1713 01:37:01.039 --> 01:37:06.079 I agree with you. The Vidybob KARRECD talk Station Brian 1714 01:37:06.119 --> 01:37:08.520 Thomas with Christopher Smithan Smith Event's what we call the 1715 01:37:08.600 --> 01:37:10.520 segment What else is on your mind today? 1716 01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:14.239 Christopher Smitheman, Well, I'm going to end by just saying, 1717 01:37:14.640 --> 01:37:18.399 you know, I think about somebody like Nancy Pelosi, who 1718 01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:24.319 had full access to President Biden, and I think we're 1719 01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:28.800 getting a better picture of why she started saying in 1720 01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:33.199 the eleventh hour he couldn't serve and shouldn't run the 1721 01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:38.000 problem with the speaker who is actually inligned to be 1722 01:37:38.079 --> 01:37:43.760 the president herself in a in a catastrophic situation, she 1723 01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:48.760 should have disclosed many many years ago in that presidency 1724 01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:51.520 that there was something wrong with him, and I'm just 1725 01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:54.279 I just prayed that Congress has the courage. I don't 1726 01:37:54.279 --> 01:37:56.159 want them to be distracted on the big things that 1727 01:37:56.239 --> 01:37:59.479 they're doing, but as soon as they passes this tax bill, 1728 01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:03.680 they should pivot and give the transparency. I mean, that 1729 01:38:03.880 --> 01:38:06.279 take that we're talking about is so revealing, and I 1730 01:38:06.399 --> 01:38:09.199 hope everyone will take the time this week to listen 1731 01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:10.960 to some of it or listen to all of it. 1732 01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:14.199 It's out there for anybody to see that interview between 1733 01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:18.880 the Special prosecutor and President Biden. It'll give you great insight. 1734 01:38:19.119 --> 01:38:23.760 As Brian Thomas said years before. I mean, Brian Thomas, 1735 01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:26.720 you had never heard the audio and you were talking 1736 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:29.920 about who's running the United States of America. It didn't 1737 01:38:29.960 --> 01:38:32.720 take the audio for you to go, aha, there's a 1738 01:38:32.840 --> 01:38:36.199 problem in the White House and there is a conspiracy. 1739 01:38:35.640 --> 01:38:36.199 To cover up. 1740 01:38:36.840 --> 01:38:39.000 Well, I mean, listen, all I can do is look, 1741 01:38:39.359 --> 01:38:42.319 I mean, see the video and listen to the audio 1742 01:38:42.479 --> 01:38:45.039 and the video together and draw my own conclusions. And 1743 01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:47.479 there were so many illustrations of this going on, that's 1744 01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:49.920 the only conclusion I could reach. So I think it 1745 01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:51.680 was a fair one. And oh look I was right. 1746 01:38:51.800 --> 01:38:52.039 Hmm. 1747 01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:54.439 Okay, So for all those people out there that you know, 1748 01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:57.039 didn't Thomas is wrong, He's crazy. You know, he's a 1749 01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:00.279 conspiracy theorists. This reminds me a lot of things that 1750 01:39:00.279 --> 01:39:03.960 were said about COVID and masking and lockdowns and social distancing. 1751 01:39:04.039 --> 01:39:05.960 They were just like, this isn't going to do anything, 1752 01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:10.119 and they were ridiculed and belittled and berated, and doctors 1753 01:39:10.159 --> 01:39:12.159 who stood up and spoke truth to power would lose 1754 01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.760 their license or get ostracized by the medical profession and 1755 01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:18.239 low to hold they were all right. So you know, 1756 01:39:18.359 --> 01:39:20.920 the other thing about this is you mentioned Nancy Pelosi, 1757 01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:24.399 but also a guy like Chucky Schumer, the press, the 1758 01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:28.920 various press secretaries, all of the cabinet members that had 1759 01:39:29.000 --> 01:39:32.720 to interact with the president over and over and over again. 1760 01:39:33.439 --> 01:39:35.600 You know, Pete budda judge and others would come out 1761 01:39:35.600 --> 01:39:38.079 and tell you that everything is just aoka and they're 1762 01:39:38.119 --> 01:39:39.840 all now held out to be liars. And my question 1763 01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:42.600 to you, Christopher Smithman, from a political standpoint, I guess 1764 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:46.079 I'm just kind of wondering how the Democrats, how Democrats 1765 01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:49.399 in the Democratic Party feel about what their party and 1766 01:39:49.479 --> 01:39:52.479 their party officials did to them in perpetuating this lie. 1767 01:39:53.119 --> 01:39:55.720 So they first off back when Bernie Sanders one of 1768 01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:58.479 the nomination, they pulled a plug on Bernie Sanders, who 1769 01:39:58.520 --> 01:39:59.920 looked like he was going to win it in favor 1770 01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:03.359 of the quote unquote moderate Joe Biden. That wasn't exactly 1771 01:40:03.439 --> 01:40:06.720 a democratic process, and they pulled the same shenanigans, telling 1772 01:40:06.760 --> 01:40:09.680 Biden he's going to run again, and then realize, in 1773 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:12.399 spite of everything that they were aware of, continue to 1774 01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:15.079 run him until the debate, at which time they deprived 1775 01:40:15.119 --> 01:40:17.319 the Democratic Party of a choice on who they wanted 1776 01:40:17.359 --> 01:40:22.039 to be the nominee, just dubbing and coordinating Kamala Harris, 1777 01:40:22.520 --> 01:40:24.640 which didn't sit well with many people. And then you 1778 01:40:24.680 --> 01:40:27.239 got the mainstream media complicit in all this. I mean, 1779 01:40:27.800 --> 01:40:31.560 if I I'm critical of the Republicans in Columbus and 1780 01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:33.720 what they've done in the past, like with Larry Householder 1781 01:40:33.760 --> 01:40:35.439 and Governor de Wine, and I'm you know, I can 1782 01:40:35.520 --> 01:40:37.239 be critical of him and think we hit a changing 1783 01:40:37.319 --> 01:40:40.479 of the guard. Thank god for VV. Ramaswami getting the nomination, 1784 01:40:40.640 --> 01:40:43.840 But you know, I just wonder how the Democrats feel. 1785 01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:46.640 Do they they really believe they have been betrayed? And 1786 01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:48.399 don't you think they should. 1787 01:40:49.800 --> 01:40:57.039 Well, remember, the Democrats nationally had a campaign using Now, 1788 01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:00.439 I know, it was just a slogan constitutional crisis, right, 1789 01:41:01.000 --> 01:41:05.119 I mean, think about them using that knowing that the 1790 01:41:05.199 --> 01:41:10.840 White House is impaired. The constitutional crisis was President Biden 1791 01:41:11.199 --> 01:41:17.640 himself because he has dementia or Alzheimer's. He has dementia 1792 01:41:17.800 --> 01:41:22.920 or Alzheimer's. And everybody knew it. Brian Thomas, you knew it. 1793 01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:25.600 There were media people who knew it. And it had 1794 01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:28.800 nothing to do with being a libertarian or a conservative 1795 01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:31.880 or a liberal. It had to do with caring about 1796 01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:34.960 the country. And if they're willing to cover up something 1797 01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:38.479 like this, what else are they covering up? And so 1798 01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:42.159 that's what frustrated me that the Democrats were using this 1799 01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:48.399 constitutional crisis campaign destroying American family, right, because there were 1800 01:41:48.479 --> 01:41:51.279 family members that were saying there's a problem with the president, 1801 01:41:51.680 --> 01:41:53.640 and all of a sudden, it made you a pariah. 1802 01:41:54.760 --> 01:41:58.119 Those people need to be rehabilitated in the family, they 1803 01:41:58.239 --> 01:42:01.000 need to be rehabilitated in the mets. They need to 1804 01:42:01.039 --> 01:42:06.439 be rehabilitated as local and national and statewide politicians. Because 1805 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:09.520 they all were right, and that's why we have to 1806 01:42:09.600 --> 01:42:12.560 take time to discuss it. And why the Democrats who 1807 01:42:12.560 --> 01:42:15.479 were saying let's just move forward, is just not going 1808 01:42:15.560 --> 01:42:18.239 to work with me. I want to know what the 1809 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:20.920 heck was going on over the last four years with 1810 01:42:21.079 --> 01:42:25.439 President Biden. Who knew what, when, and why didn't they, 1811 01:42:25.920 --> 01:42:29.840 under the constitution of the United States share that information 1812 01:42:30.279 --> 01:42:34.199 with the American public. We deserve to know what happened 1813 01:42:34.239 --> 01:42:38.079 in our government so it never happened again. Even the 1814 01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:41.479 doctors who were saying he was help me, Hey, the 1815 01:42:41.600 --> 01:42:43.880 doctors are supposed to go and give the health check. 1816 01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:49.920 The doctors were coming out saying, under their responsibilities of 1817 01:42:50.039 --> 01:42:54.439 being a physician, how were you passing President Biden for 1818 01:42:54.680 --> 01:42:58.760 four years saying nothing was wrong? The candidate his name 1819 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:01.399 was President Trump. If you remember saying, hey, I'm going 1820 01:43:01.439 --> 01:43:04.159 to go have my doctor check me. Here's what he said. 1821 01:43:04.640 --> 01:43:07.960 What was going on with the White House physician? That 1822 01:43:08.239 --> 01:43:13.359 person failled Americans by not coming clean about the president self. 1823 01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:16.119 That's why he's in the position, That's why she's in 1824 01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:19.960 the position to tell us the health status of the president. 1825 01:43:20.159 --> 01:43:23.319 For God's sake, they have the latch codes. This is 1826 01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:27.479 a person who's making huge decisions about the about the 1827 01:43:27.960 --> 01:43:31.239 removal or the pull out of Afghanistan to the basic 1828 01:43:31.319 --> 01:43:34.880 Germaine decisions they're making on a daily basis about Ukraine 1829 01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:37.720 and what's happening with Russia or what's going on with 1830 01:43:37.960 --> 01:43:42.439 Israel and what's going on with Harman. This was a 1831 01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:48.119 great conspiracy of great magnitude, with the media absolutely being 1832 01:43:48.199 --> 01:43:51.000 involved in it, and we need to know what happened. 1833 01:43:51.239 --> 01:43:54.640 Bryan Thomas, that's my spleet vent for the for the week. 1834 01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:57.520 That you did, and I guess it may go a 1835 01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:01.399 long way to explain, Christopher, why Joe Biden didn't turn 1836 01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:04.239 out to be the so called moderate, rational, you know, 1837 01:44:04.359 --> 01:44:06.680 as'll crossing kind of guy that they touted him to be, 1838 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.439 the one that the American people selected to be the nominee. 1839 01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:14.760 I suppose maybe it's because he wasn't in charge. Maybe 1840 01:44:14.800 --> 01:44:17.039 it's because the leftists that obviously have taken over the 1841 01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:19.840 Democratic Party got their way with the auto pen or 1842 01:44:20.159 --> 01:44:22.960 you know, whispering in his ear or otherwise driving policy 1843 01:44:23.119 --> 01:44:27.439 to the far left extremes of the political spectrum. Obiden, Yeah, 1844 01:44:27.720 --> 01:44:31.039 Biden not paying attention. So anyhow we could have to 1845 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:32.079 speculate at this point. 1846 01:44:33.439 --> 01:44:36.159 Thank you so much for the time, Brian Thomas, and 1847 01:44:36.479 --> 01:44:38.920 people can follow me at Boat Smith Aman and I 1848 01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:41.880 look forward to being back with you next Monday. 1849 01:44:42.199 --> 01:44:44.119 I will. I look forward to it as well. Christopher, 1850 01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:47.720 have a wonderful week, my friend. Channel nine First one 1851 01:44:47.960 --> 01:44:50.479 forecasts got to be cloudy day today with a chance 1852 01:44:50.520 --> 01:44:54.800 of afternoon light rain, probably most likely between noon and 1853 01:44:54.840 --> 01:44:57.399 four pm. According to Channel nine's forecast, seventy three for 1854 01:44:57.439 --> 01:44:59.319 the high out of fifty time overnight with just clouds. 1855 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:02.279 Opportunity for some rain and maybe some storms as well. 1856 01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:05.039 Tomorrow high have sixty eight clouds over night, A few 1857 01:45:05.079 --> 01:45:08.319 showers are possible to drop the fifty eight and cloudy 1858 01:45:08.359 --> 01:45:11.039 as well on Wednesday, with additional showers possible and high 1859 01:45:11.039 --> 01:45:14.520 have sixty seven fifty three degrees. 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Yeah, 1872 01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:52.800 the other thing that's coming back up to the top. 1873 01:45:52.880 --> 01:45:55.199 And Donald Trump brought it back up at the top. Okay, 1874 01:45:55.239 --> 01:45:58.159 we've got all this, you know, uh, cover up from 1875 01:45:58.239 --> 01:46:01.199 within the government, the cabinet position as the press secretaries, 1876 01:46:02.520 --> 01:46:07.119 the Chucky Schumer and Nancy Pelussi, everybody who spent any 1877 01:46:07.159 --> 01:46:08.920 time with Biden's now him to come up and admit 1878 01:46:09.000 --> 01:46:10.520 that we got Yeah, he had a problem on our hands. 1879 01:46:10.520 --> 01:46:11.920 All the books that are being written about it by 1880 01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:15.159 people who used to deny it, Jake Tapper most notably, 1881 01:46:16.239 --> 01:46:18.640 you know, profiting on what they're now saying we all 1882 01:46:18.800 --> 01:46:22.640 knew about and document it with all these quotes and interviews. 1883 01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:25.880 But you had this media complicity, So you had the 1884 01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:28.520 people lying about his health and immedia that would parrot 1885 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:31.920 it and not look into the veracity of what they 1886 01:46:31.960 --> 01:46:33.800 were being told. In spite of people like me who 1887 01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:35.439 could see with their own eyes and hear with their 1888 01:46:35.479 --> 01:46:40.399 own ears. An obvious cognitive decline going on. But now 1889 01:46:40.680 --> 01:46:42.920 Trump's bringing back up the whole idea of the stolen election. 1890 01:46:43.079 --> 01:46:45.680 And you know we heard that before. That's been discredit 1891 01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:47.760 The election wasn't stolen, but that's what the mainstream media 1892 01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:53.119 kept saying, right, So if you're going to be objective 1893 01:46:53.159 --> 01:46:55.680 about it and realize the mainstream media obviously in the 1894 01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:59.319 bag for Democrats and all things democratic, and particularly Joe Biden, 1895 01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:04.399 you got to have a John Deciah of skepticism about 1896 01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:06.520 what they told you about that, don't you. They're the 1897 01:47:06.560 --> 01:47:10.199 ones responsible for fact checking and looking into matters and investigating, 1898 01:47:10.199 --> 01:47:12.479 and there wasn't a whole lot of that done. And 1899 01:47:12.600 --> 01:47:14.880 Trump just over the weekend on Saturday put a truth 1900 01:47:15.279 --> 01:47:18.720 Truth social media post up so that the presidential election 1901 01:47:18.800 --> 01:47:20.800 of twenty twenty was rigged and stolen. He mentioned the 1902 01:47:20.840 --> 01:47:23.560 auto pen, He mentioned a larger scandal going on here, 1903 01:47:24.000 --> 01:47:27.279 and the campaign of inoculation and innocence of Democrats wage. 1904 01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:32.399 None like that had ever been waged before. So he's 1905 01:47:32.439 --> 01:47:35.159 now going back to the well on the election being 1906 01:47:35.199 --> 01:47:39.239 stolen in twenty twenty, Maybe some fact checking will be done, 1907 01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:41.840 maybe there will be a true investigation on that. There's 1908 01:47:41.840 --> 01:47:43.960 been a lot of evidence and a lot of investigations 1909 01:47:44.000 --> 01:47:47.399 and a lot of you know, voting voting irregularities have 1910 01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:50.039 been and pointed out since the mainstream media and the 1911 01:47:50.119 --> 01:47:52.680 Democrats concluded that no, there is nothing to see here. 1912 01:47:54.199 --> 01:47:56.800 Fifty five k SE Detalk Station Money Money with Brian James. 1913 01:47:57.039 --> 01:48:01.359 First topic Moody's credit rating looking good and the motivations 1914 01:48:01.359 --> 01:48:04.000 behind it are seemingly obvious. Yes, we spend too much 1915 01:48:04.079 --> 01:48:05.960 and our deficit is too big. Don't go away, be 1916 01:48:06.079 --> 01:48:10.119 right back. Confuse happens fast, stay up to date at 1917 01:48:10.159 --> 01:48:12.319 the top of the hour, not can it be complicated? 1918 01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:13.640 It's going to go very fast. 1919 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:18.319 Fifty five KRC the Talk Station. This report is sponsored 1920 01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:22.840 by Eerie Insurance eight O six Iffy about kar see 1921 01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:27.680 the talk station by time. It's always happy to welcome 1922 01:48:27.680 --> 01:48:29.560 back to Thinking about Garsey mornings here every Monday at 1923 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:32.479 this time we do Money Monday with Brian James from 1924 01:48:32.520 --> 01:48:34.760 all Worth Financial. Brian, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. 1925 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:37.720 Welcome back to the show as always, hope you did too, 1926 01:48:37.840 --> 01:48:40.279 and thank you for the time to once again hang 1927 01:48:40.319 --> 01:48:41.159 out with you on Monday. 1928 01:48:41.319 --> 01:48:43.960 Always enjoy it. And of course I've been railing about 1929 01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:46.000 this all morning. Moody stripped the US of its top 1930 01:48:46.039 --> 01:48:50.399 credit rating, knocked us down a notch, of course, catching 1931 01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:52.640 up with the likes of Standard and Poors, who did 1932 01:48:52.680 --> 01:48:54.960 that back in twenty eleven, INFIT Ratings, which did it 1933 01:48:55.000 --> 01:48:58.079 back in August at twenty three. But the markets reacting, 1934 01:48:58.159 --> 01:49:01.119 futures are down and of course treasury yields have jumped 1935 01:49:01.199 --> 01:49:03.920 because the poorer you're credit rating, the more you have 1936 01:49:04.079 --> 01:49:06.520 to pay people to invest in your well. In this 1937 01:49:06.560 --> 01:49:11.720 particular case country, I mean, and they spelled it out 1938 01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:13.640 in black and white, Moody's pointed it out. It's the 1939 01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:16.359 growing burden of the financial and federal government's budget deficit 1940 01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:18.680 and the rising cost of debt service on it. 1941 01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:19.439 Duh. 1942 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:22.640 Yeah, this isn't too big of a shocker, is it. 1943 01:49:23.239 --> 01:49:25.439 So what the credit rating is, of course, is a 1944 01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:28.640 way of comparing one country or really anything. Just about 1945 01:49:28.680 --> 01:49:33.479 anything has a credit rating, governments, corporations, frankly, people do too. 1946 01:49:33.640 --> 01:49:35.039 That's what those credit bureaus are for. 1947 01:49:35.640 --> 01:49:37.840 But the whole point is to compare one entity to 1948 01:49:37.920 --> 01:49:39.960 another in terms of how likely are they to pay 1949 01:49:39.960 --> 01:49:42.880 their debts. And Moody's is the last of the three 1950 01:49:43.239 --> 01:49:47.560 major rating facilities to cut the United States down from 1951 01:49:47.560 --> 01:49:51.079 a perfect rating, and that that started in twenty eleven, 1952 01:49:51.159 --> 01:49:53.520 so in the aftermath of two thousand and eight, S 1953 01:49:53.600 --> 01:49:55.880 and P was the first one to cut us and 1954 01:49:56.000 --> 01:49:58.279 kind of say, maybe we're not so good as good. 1955 01:49:58.119 --> 01:49:58.840 As we used to look. 1956 01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:00.640 So yeah, in this this isn't too big of a 1957 01:50:00.680 --> 01:50:03.640 shock because we are putting ourselves. We are proactively deciding 1958 01:50:04.039 --> 01:50:06.880 to present ourselves to the as a country, to the 1959 01:50:06.920 --> 01:50:09.960 rest of the world in a different manner where that 1960 01:50:10.239 --> 01:50:13.840 necessarily has an impact on the economic output of the country. 1961 01:50:14.000 --> 01:50:16.520 And what are the what's the outlook of how can 1962 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.800 we be going forward, you know, as we have in 1963 01:50:19.880 --> 01:50:22.079 the past, And so for sure that's now having an 1964 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:23.880 impact on the market. The futures are down one to 1965 01:50:23.960 --> 01:50:25.960 two percent depending on what you're looking at. This is 1966 01:50:26.000 --> 01:50:27.800 But again, this can't be too much of a shock. 1967 01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:31.399 We've consciously decided to do things differently. We talk all 1968 01:50:31.520 --> 01:50:34.000 the time about how we can't afford ourselves, we're living 1969 01:50:34.079 --> 01:50:36.560 beyond our means, and it is starting to surface here 1970 01:50:36.640 --> 01:50:39.279 just a little bit in terms of the rest of 1971 01:50:39.359 --> 01:50:41.520 the world's perception of the United States as a credit 1972 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:42.840 worth the facility. 1973 01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:45.039 Well, I suppose the timing couldn't have been better, considering 1974 01:50:45.079 --> 01:50:48.359 they're talking about this reconciliation package, which deals with the 1975 01:50:48.560 --> 01:50:51.760 debt and spending, and I know there's some moderate Republicans 1976 01:50:51.800 --> 01:50:53.840 who are standing in the way of advancing some steeper 1977 01:50:53.920 --> 01:50:57.119 cuts because oh, it's my green energy product, you're not 1978 01:50:57.279 --> 01:50:59.359 our project. You're not going to cut it in my state, 1979 01:50:59.560 --> 01:51:02.319 or it's I'm in New Jersey and I wanted one 1980 01:51:02.399 --> 01:51:06.199 hundred and twenty four thousand dollars per couple salt tax 1981 01:51:06.600 --> 01:51:09.880 because well, the taxes of my state are outrages. I mean, 1982 01:51:10.239 --> 01:51:14.720 we just subsidized the high tax states, high taxation, and 1983 01:51:14.800 --> 01:51:17.199 the people that should be paying that by cutting their 1984 01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:19.279 federal income tax. I mean, you know, the point of 1985 01:51:20.119 --> 01:51:22.479 capping the salt tax at ten thousand dollars would so 1986 01:51:22.640 --> 01:51:25.479 we wouldn't be subsidizing those outrageous states. 1987 01:51:26.800 --> 01:51:27.199 That's right. 1988 01:51:27.720 --> 01:51:31.880 What we're doing is taking active steps to hopefully, you know, 1989 01:51:32.079 --> 01:51:34.279 reduce that. But there's no way to do all this 1990 01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:37.239 kind of stuff without pain. That that's the one thing 1991 01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:39.119 that we have not been able to drag across the 1992 01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:42.039 finish line here. Both parties recognize and have for decades 1993 01:51:42.319 --> 01:51:44.680 that there is a problem, and we are moving in 1994 01:51:44.760 --> 01:51:47.600 the wrong direction. However, there has never been an effort 1995 01:51:47.760 --> 01:51:50.720 where on one side has successfully reached across the aisle 1996 01:51:50.800 --> 01:51:53.479 to actually do something about it, and that's really not 1997 01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:55.520 even happening now. We just have a situation in eituation 1998 01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:58.560 where the Republicans obviously dominate both both parts of Congress, 1999 01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:01.880 and that's the closest we're going to get to putting 2000 01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:03.640 all this in place to make the fixes. 2001 01:52:03.840 --> 01:52:06.960 But it's gonna have to survive, Brian, the midterm elections. 2002 01:52:07.039 --> 01:52:09.720 Right So, right now, Donald Trump effectively has you know, 2003 01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:12.359 pretty much carb bloc to do just about whatever he 2004 01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:14.640 wants to do because he's got control of Congress for 2005 01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:16.600 the most part, and he's ignoring a lot of the 2006 01:52:16.680 --> 01:52:20.319 rules and regulations that were in place anyway. But if 2007 01:52:20.359 --> 01:52:22.079 a lot of the stuff doesn't get done before the 2008 01:52:22.159 --> 01:52:24.199 midterm elections, I can't think that dependulum is not going 2009 01:52:24.239 --> 01:52:26.520 to swing back the other way, well back the. 2010 01:52:26.560 --> 01:52:29.479 Other way, toward even more reckless spending. I mean, we're 2011 01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:32.520 I mean, I hate to use the phrase existential threat again, 2012 01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:34.840 but we're already paying a trillion dollars a year in 2013 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:37.359 debt service and that's only going to get worse and worse, 2014 01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:41.600 and that takes away from literally anything else that's I 2015 01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:43.520 don't care what side of the political spectrum're on. If 2016 01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:45.720 you want the government to pay for something, the more 2017 01:52:45.800 --> 01:52:48.720 money we have to allocate to debt service, which is required. 2018 01:52:48.880 --> 01:52:51.840 You can't just ignore that. You're not going to have 2019 01:52:52.319 --> 01:52:56.159 money left over for expanding this or funding that. Whether 2020 01:52:56.239 --> 01:52:58.920 it's military or one of the social welfare safety nets, 2021 01:52:59.239 --> 01:53:01.439 they're all going to be deprived extra dollars. 2022 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:05.079 Yeah, that's absolutely right, and that's why it's been so 2023 01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:07.600 important that we actually get people in the same room 2024 01:53:07.880 --> 01:53:09.960 to talk and agree on something. We haven't been able 2025 01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:12.560 to do that because the American people have not been 2026 01:53:12.720 --> 01:53:13.199 willing to. 2027 01:53:13.319 --> 01:53:14.840 Sacrifice what they need to. 2028 01:53:15.520 --> 01:53:19.399 Because if your congress person is out there trying to say, hey, 2029 01:53:19.439 --> 01:53:21.319 we're living beyond our means, we have to stop doing that, 2030 01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:23.880 what they're actually saying, if they're serious, is we need 2031 01:53:23.920 --> 01:53:24.640 to give up something. 2032 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:28.439 And that has not been a politically tenable stance to take. 2033 01:53:28.520 --> 01:53:30.800 If you are somebody whose career and livelihood depends on 2034 01:53:30.880 --> 01:53:32.079 getting elected again. 2035 01:53:32.119 --> 01:53:35.079 Well, and there lies the problem. As far as I'm concerned. 2036 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:37.920 You should do what's right, what's fiscally responsible. What is 2037 01:53:38.000 --> 01:53:40.640 going to save the country from itself and not just 2038 01:53:40.760 --> 01:53:43.399 to pease people see and get re elected. I could 2039 01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:47.199 campaign if I cut back medicaid well, simply requiring people 2040 01:53:47.239 --> 01:53:50.560 that are able bodied without families to engage in some work, 2041 01:53:50.720 --> 01:53:53.840 training or work. I mean to the tune of what 2042 01:53:54.720 --> 01:53:58.199 twenty hours a week is really a small, small ask. 2043 01:54:01.359 --> 01:54:04.079 That's not unfair to say, but that has to extend 2044 01:54:04.159 --> 01:54:06.880 to the person who might take advantage of the opportunity 2045 01:54:07.159 --> 01:54:10.800 to take down an incumbent representative. Because that person told 2046 01:54:10.840 --> 01:54:13.079 the country the truth, it leaves them to being a 2047 01:54:13.159 --> 01:54:15.800 sitting duck. Hey, this person told you had to sacrifice something, 2048 01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:18.359 I'm telling you the opposite. We're gonna keep giving you money. 2049 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:20.560 Nobody has to resist that urge. But it's been the 2050 01:54:20.600 --> 01:54:22.239 American way for several hundred years. 2051 01:54:22.359 --> 01:54:24.880 Well, they need to just hold up the Moody's reports. Say, look, 2052 01:54:24.920 --> 01:54:28.920 we've already been downgraded. Why because our national debt is 2053 01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:30.800 so big it's sucking up all the life out of 2054 01:54:30.840 --> 01:54:33.439 the room. This is what we're talking about. So yeah, 2055 01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:35.439 you can tell people there don't have to be any cuts, 2056 01:54:35.479 --> 01:54:38.159 but it's just gonna get worse and our borrowing costs 2057 01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:40.439 are just gonna get that much greater, and our debt 2058 01:54:40.479 --> 01:54:43.199 service is gonna get that much greater. I mean, explain 2059 01:54:43.239 --> 01:54:46.000 to my listeners if you can, Brian James, what would 2060 01:54:46.079 --> 01:54:49.079 a default look like? How would that play out? If 2061 01:54:49.119 --> 01:54:51.920 we couldn't make the debt service on our national debt? 2062 01:54:53.319 --> 01:54:56.720 Nobody comes out of a US default looking pretty The 2063 01:54:57.000 --> 01:54:59.920 entire world will be impacted because, whether they like us 2064 01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:01.840 or not, we are by far, far, far, far far 2065 01:55:02.319 --> 01:55:05.159 the largest economy on the face of the Earth. American 2066 01:55:05.199 --> 01:55:07.560 economy is twenty two to twenty three trillion dollars something 2067 01:55:07.680 --> 01:55:10.319 like that. China is somewhere around nineteen twenty trillion, and 2068 01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:13.520 it goes rapidly down from there. So if all of 2069 01:55:13.560 --> 01:55:15.840 a sudden, the rest of the planet basically being the 2070 01:55:16.000 --> 01:55:18.960 entire universe, loses faith in the faith in the United 2071 01:55:18.960 --> 01:55:21.560 States ability to pay its debt, then all of a sudden, 2072 01:55:21.720 --> 01:55:23.199 all those countries and the rest of the world is 2073 01:55:23.239 --> 01:55:27.199 going to lose a substantial customer base from which to sell, 2074 01:55:27.239 --> 01:55:29.399 and that's going to have a domino effect. So nobody, 2075 01:55:29.800 --> 01:55:31.840 even those who would prefer that we get knocked off 2076 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:34.439 our pedestal, will not benefit from that. 2077 01:55:34.680 --> 01:55:35.720 Disruption to that level. 2078 01:55:35.840 --> 01:55:38.399 Now I'm looking at I think these ratings, it's important 2079 01:55:38.439 --> 01:55:40.920 to understand what the ratings actually mean, because some people 2080 01:55:41.000 --> 01:55:43.359 might say, well, we're still since we're the largest economy, 2081 01:55:43.399 --> 01:55:45.880 that means the ratings aren't as important because you know, 2082 01:55:45.960 --> 01:55:49.039 we're just so gotsdarn big. Well, just to give some comparison, 2083 01:55:49.119 --> 01:55:52.439 there there are nine other countries now that have perfect 2084 01:55:52.560 --> 01:55:55.399 credit ratings. You still can buy government debt that has 2085 01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:59.560 perfect credit rating. Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, 2086 01:55:59.600 --> 01:56:02.720 Singapore or in Luxembourg all have better credit ratings in 2087 01:56:02.760 --> 01:56:03.319 the United. 2088 01:56:03.199 --> 01:56:05.760 States and subsequently have lower yields. 2089 01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:08.640 If you want to buy those countries treasury bonds, you're 2090 01:56:08.640 --> 01:56:10.479 going to be getting about two percent on a ten 2091 01:56:10.560 --> 01:56:13.079 year bond in compared to the United States, which is 2092 01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:15.680 currently about four and a half percent. The yield on 2093 01:56:15.760 --> 01:56:19.119 a bond is directly reflective brian of the of a 2094 01:56:19.199 --> 01:56:22.840 country's ability to pay its debts. If you are a deadbeat, 2095 01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:24.680 then you're not getting a credit card. If you do, 2096 01:56:24.800 --> 01:56:27.359 you'll be paying thirty percent. The rest of the world 2097 01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:29.119 is saying the United States needs to pay four and 2098 01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:31.119 a half percent, while these other countries need to pay 2099 01:56:31.119 --> 01:56:32.279 about two to borrow money. 2100 01:56:32.680 --> 01:56:36.319 Well, it is illustrative of the problem. And I don't know. 2101 01:56:36.399 --> 01:56:38.600 I guess at some point we may get junk status. 2102 01:56:39.159 --> 01:56:41.279 What is junk considered? What nine percent and above or 2103 01:56:41.319 --> 01:56:42.279 something along those lines. 2104 01:56:42.800 --> 01:56:45.399 Well, the junk status has to do with the credit 2105 01:56:45.479 --> 01:56:49.319 rating itself. It's not the yield directly, but that's triple 2106 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:53.439 Triple B is the last investment grade generally speaking, and 2107 01:56:53.560 --> 01:56:55.760 below that you get labeled as junk, which doesn't mean 2108 01:56:55.800 --> 01:56:57.920 you can't pay your debts. It just means you've kind 2109 01:56:57.960 --> 01:56:59.840 of moved into a territory where it's a little more 2110 01:56:59.880 --> 01:57:02.159 likely that anybody who owe that you owe money to 2111 01:57:02.239 --> 01:57:04.039 ought to be paying attention to to make sure. 2112 01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:06.079 That you are good for it. Fair enough, if we're 2113 01:57:06.079 --> 01:57:08.159 going to find out about starter homes and Greater Cincinnati, 2114 01:57:08.199 --> 01:57:10.680 are there any even out there more of Brian James 2115 01:57:10.800 --> 01:57:15.199 Walworth Financial, Hey nineteen If you have fair CD talk 2116 01:57:15.239 --> 01:57:19.960 Station Money Monday. Brian James Allworth Financial, Hey, real quick here, 2117 01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:22.720 since you talked about credit rating and the Moody's downgrading 2118 01:57:22.720 --> 01:57:24.840 at United States credit rating, I just checked my credit 2119 01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:27.199 score the other day. I get a notice from LifeLock saying, hey, 2120 01:57:27.239 --> 01:57:28.880 your credit score is changed, or I check it out. 2121 01:57:29.439 --> 01:57:31.479 You know, I still have excellent credit, And at one 2122 01:57:31.479 --> 01:57:33.439 point I actually had a perfect credit store. It didn't 2123 01:57:33.479 --> 01:57:35.960 last very long, so it dropped two points. And the 2124 01:57:36.039 --> 01:57:39.720 reason is because I have excellent in every single category 2125 01:57:39.840 --> 01:57:44.119 except one. They say I don't have enough accounts that 2126 01:57:44.279 --> 01:57:47.680 I should have more available credit. I'm thinking, how bast 2127 01:57:47.720 --> 01:57:50.079 awkward is that? That doesn't make any sense to me. 2128 01:57:50.600 --> 01:57:53.800 I'm dutifully and timefully paying off what credit cards I have. 2129 01:57:54.119 --> 01:57:56.119 I don't need any additional credit. Why in the hell 2130 01:57:56.159 --> 01:57:57.880 would I want to go out and get more. It 2131 01:57:57.960 --> 01:57:58.920 doesn't make any sense. 2132 01:57:59.680 --> 01:58:01.279 Yeah, it is kind of counterintuitive. 2133 01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:03.520 What they're basically saying is that you're such a good 2134 01:58:03.560 --> 01:58:07.159 credit risk that we think you should have more. I 2135 01:58:07.199 --> 01:58:09.039 think there's a little bit of an ulterior motive in 2136 01:58:09.119 --> 01:58:12.159 there that to help you encourage you to do that. 2137 01:58:12.399 --> 01:58:16.319 I've noticed that the biggest spikes I've gotten in my 2138 01:58:16.439 --> 01:58:19.000 credit score is when, you know, if we do something 2139 01:58:19.039 --> 01:58:20.439 for the house or whatever, and there's some kind of 2140 01:58:20.479 --> 01:58:22.680 promotional zero percent rate, Sure, I'll take that. I don't 2141 01:58:22.680 --> 01:58:24.279 really care about the credit, don't really need that. But 2142 01:58:24.640 --> 01:58:26.640 all of a sudden A month later, my credit score 2143 01:58:26.680 --> 01:58:29.039 spikes because I have an extra line in place, off 2144 01:58:29.079 --> 01:58:30.880 of which I'm not paying anybody any interest. 2145 01:58:30.920 --> 01:58:32.039 It just gave me a better price. 2146 01:58:32.439 --> 01:58:34.159 But yes, they do want you to have more if 2147 01:58:34.199 --> 01:58:35.560 you take it, if you want to take advantage of 2148 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:36.960 those things, it will give you a higher score. 2149 01:58:37.079 --> 01:58:39.680 All right. I'm not interested in it, because I'm still fine. 2150 01:58:39.760 --> 01:58:41.920 It just it just drives me crazy when I read that, 2151 01:58:42.039 --> 01:58:44.119 I'm like, damn it, why would I want to go 2152 01:58:44.199 --> 01:58:47.760 out and get, you know, a more opportunity to borrow 2153 01:58:47.840 --> 01:58:50.680 that I wouldn't use. To your point, I wouldn't need it. 2154 01:58:50.760 --> 01:58:53.439 I don't need it. I wouldn't use it. So anyhow, 2155 01:58:53.640 --> 01:58:56.159 moving back to your topics that you provided. Sorry for 2156 01:58:56.199 --> 01:58:58.399 the curve ball there, Brian, I just found that very frustrating. 2157 01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:03.039 Starter homes Are there any around Cincinnati? I saw the 2158 01:59:03.159 --> 01:59:06.079 article from Randy Tucker and from the Enquirer, and apparently 2159 01:59:06.119 --> 01:59:07.119 they're in very short. 2160 01:59:06.920 --> 01:59:10.239 Supply, very much so. Yeah, so if you look around there, 2161 01:59:10.279 --> 01:59:12.359 there's still plenty of building going on. Right, We've been 2162 01:59:12.399 --> 01:59:14.880 talking about this housing crash that's supposed to be coming 2163 01:59:14.920 --> 01:59:17.279 for years now. Maybe we've given up on talking about 2164 01:59:17.319 --> 01:59:19.720 it we found a new shiny object, but that simply 2165 01:59:19.800 --> 01:59:22.960 hasn't happened. But no, there's not many starter type homes 2166 01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:24.800 being built in Cincinnati, you know, the kind of homes 2167 01:59:24.840 --> 01:59:27.239 one or two, maybe three bedrooms at the most. But 2168 01:59:27.399 --> 01:59:29.680 obviously to allow a young family to kind of get started, 2169 01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:32.840 really struggling for buyers to find a home for under 2170 01:59:32.880 --> 01:59:36.239 three hundred thousand that doesn't require major work or isn't 2171 01:59:36.680 --> 01:59:38.359 a neighborhood that's not quite ideal. 2172 01:59:38.800 --> 01:59:41.079 The demand is there. Of course, there are people in 2173 01:59:41.119 --> 01:59:41.640 the situation. 2174 01:59:41.760 --> 01:59:43.680 We probably all know young people who would prefer to 2175 01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:45.840 get out of their apartments and their condos and get 2176 01:59:45.880 --> 01:59:46.840 into something different. 2177 01:59:47.079 --> 01:59:49.199 But the supply is not there, and the reason is 2178 01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:51.880 it's just not as attractive for builders. 2179 01:59:51.960 --> 01:59:56.159 Builders are prefer larger homes because there's more profit margin, 2180 01:59:56.239 --> 01:59:58.960 that's more scalable. If you think about fixed costs like 2181 01:59:59.079 --> 02:00:01.199 permitting and comply and all the stuff that they have 2182 02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:03.000 to do that has nothing to do with putting two 2183 02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:05.560 by fours together, those fixed costs are the same no 2184 02:00:05.680 --> 02:00:08.840 matter the size of the ultimate home, and their preference, 2185 02:00:08.920 --> 02:00:10.399 of course, is to make as much money as they 2186 02:00:10.439 --> 02:00:13.079 possibly can, so they're focusing on the larger homes still 2187 02:00:13.119 --> 02:00:13.640 in this area. 2188 02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:17.520 Well, it's always puzzled me because unless I've got the 2189 02:00:17.560 --> 02:00:21.159 whole concept wrong, it seems to me the trend is 2190 02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:25.079 for people to pursue a smaller home. Now, that doesn't 2191 02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:27.079 mean you have to sacrifice on quality. You could really 2192 02:00:27.159 --> 02:00:31.039 build a superior quality with all the amenities, much smaller home. 2193 02:00:31.119 --> 02:00:33.960 You don't have to build some mega mansion or mini mansion. 2194 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:38.680 And when you do, you've got so much additional you know, 2195 02:00:38.880 --> 02:00:41.279 like heating and air conditioning expense, you got to furnish 2196 02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:44.079 their rooms. It seems to be stupid to have that 2197 02:00:44.239 --> 02:00:46.119 much space, most notably if you don't have a really 2198 02:00:46.159 --> 02:00:49.479 big family, and with an aging population, the demand for 2199 02:00:49.560 --> 02:00:52.800 smaller homes is probably increased because you don't want as 2200 02:00:52.880 --> 02:00:54.840 much place to have to clean. Maybe you don't want 2201 02:00:54.840 --> 02:00:56.960 to go up and downstairs, and you're looking for ranchumps. 2202 02:00:57.239 --> 02:00:59.319 That just sounds to me like an ideal opportunity for 2203 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:02.680 a smart dev to build small err homes compared to 2204 02:01:02.800 --> 02:01:05.439 what they've been building, but make them at higher quality 2205 02:01:05.520 --> 02:01:06.880 to increase that profit margin. 2206 02:01:08.239 --> 02:01:10.680 Yeah, but I think the higher quality part. 2207 02:01:10.720 --> 02:01:13.680 If you're increasing the profit margin, you're increasing the price, 2208 02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:15.920 and that's one of the non starters for a young 2209 02:01:15.960 --> 02:01:19.720 family getting started in and we've addressed. 2210 02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:20.800 That too with patio homes. 2211 02:01:20.880 --> 02:01:23.359 Patio homes are popping up everywhere, but a starter family 2212 02:01:23.479 --> 02:01:25.079 is not going to want that because they need somewhere 2213 02:01:25.119 --> 02:01:27.079 to let the kids run around and storage of all 2214 02:01:27.079 --> 02:01:29.319 the old baby stuff and all that other things, and 2215 02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:32.279 those neighborhoods tend to be fifty five and older anyway, 2216 02:01:32.359 --> 02:01:34.800 So we just haven't filled that gap here in this area. 2217 02:01:34.920 --> 02:01:39.039 Other cities have, the cities with real real estate spikes 2218 02:01:39.079 --> 02:01:42.640 that are really truly issues, such as Austin, Denver, Portland 2219 02:01:42.680 --> 02:01:43.399 to Minneapolis. 2220 02:01:43.640 --> 02:01:46.399 These are places that have changed how they do zoning laws. 2221 02:01:47.039 --> 02:01:49.760 So, for example, Minneapolis in twenty nineteen started to allow 2222 02:01:49.840 --> 02:01:52.680 duplexus and triplexus city wide to at least let off 2223 02:01:52.800 --> 02:01:54.840 some of that some of that demand. Those kind of 2224 02:01:54.840 --> 02:01:57.399 steps have not been taken around here yet because it's 2225 02:01:57.399 --> 02:02:01.079 still arguably affordable for a you know, somebody who's looking 2226 02:02:01.079 --> 02:02:02.960 for a quote unquote starter home to get into that 2227 02:02:02.960 --> 02:02:04.920 three hundred, three hundred and fifty thousand. But we're getting 2228 02:02:04.920 --> 02:02:06.960 to the point where it's just not gonna be feasible 2229 02:02:07.000 --> 02:02:08.039 for somebody to take that. 2230 02:02:08.119 --> 02:02:11.239 Step unless you're willing to buy one that needs maybe 2231 02:02:11.359 --> 02:02:12.520 quite a bit of work. 2232 02:02:13.479 --> 02:02:16.720 Correct or in a neighborhood that is hopefully going to 2233 02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:19.439 turn around in the next decade or so. But yeah, 2234 02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:21.159 you have to kind of you're taking a risk there 2235 02:02:21.199 --> 02:02:23.399 if you really need that house with more bedrooms, you 2236 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:26.279 are looking to again pick up something that's gonna need 2237 02:02:26.319 --> 02:02:28.199 a lot of work, or in a neighborhood that you 2238 02:02:28.279 --> 02:02:29.680 may not want to be raising your kids in. 2239 02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:32.840 Understand tough challenges out there in the world these days, 2240 02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:36.119 Is there do you see anything that might turn this around? 2241 02:02:38.960 --> 02:02:41.399 Honestly, we've been talking about this for years. Haven't we 2242 02:02:41.560 --> 02:02:44.680 been talking about this ever since two thousand and eight? Really, 2243 02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:46.640 you know, I would have thought it would have happened 2244 02:02:46.680 --> 02:02:48.600 by now. When is the bubble gonna pop where people 2245 02:02:48.680 --> 02:02:50.479 just say, you know what, I just can't do it. 2246 02:02:50.560 --> 02:02:53.720 I can't buy these houses. I'm talking to my clients 2247 02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:56.119 who are retiring and some of them are still buying 2248 02:02:56.159 --> 02:02:58.479 three and four bedroom houses, And I scratched my head, Brian, 2249 02:02:58.560 --> 02:03:00.640 why are we doing this? It's all almost like it's 2250 02:03:00.680 --> 02:03:02.880 become ingrained that I just have to live in a house. 2251 02:03:02.920 --> 02:03:04.680 That's just all there is out there. So I'm going 2252 02:03:04.720 --> 02:03:06.279 to have a couple empty rooms just the way. 2253 02:03:06.119 --> 02:03:09.239 It is fair enough. Brian James will continue one more 2254 02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:13.000 of that topic. All right, you know, I admit and 2255 02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:15.000 you know I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've said 2256 02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:16.920 it so many times. Regular listeners know that I do 2257 02:03:17.079 --> 02:03:20.359 watch shows like Wheel Fortune to wind down before I 2258 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:22.960 go to bed at eight, Brian, and it always blows 2259 02:03:23.039 --> 02:03:24.920 my mind to see the cost of some of these 2260 02:03:25.000 --> 02:03:27.640 vacation trips that they put together. I'm like, Lord almighty, 2261 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:31.800 how does any kind of regular, average American family spend 2262 02:03:31.960 --> 02:03:35.159 that kind of money to go someplace like that? And 2263 02:03:35.479 --> 02:03:37.680 I was never a big guy when it came to travel, 2264 02:03:37.800 --> 02:03:40.800 certainly not global travel. I've always enjoyed spending time here 2265 02:03:40.840 --> 02:03:43.119 in the United States of America, where there seems to 2266 02:03:43.159 --> 02:03:47.039 be an endless supply of destinations. But I understand that 2267 02:03:47.479 --> 02:03:50.680 the big summer vacation plans are being put on ice 2268 02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:51.199 this summer. 2269 02:03:52.439 --> 02:03:53.000 Yeah, that's right. 2270 02:03:53.039 --> 02:03:55.960 So when I'm doing financial plans for clients, what we 2271 02:03:56.199 --> 02:03:59.359 always budget for vacation and used to be that we 2272 02:03:59.399 --> 02:04:02.000 would throw in. If somebody didn't talk about travel, like 2273 02:04:02.039 --> 02:04:04.880 it wasn't a retirement goal, I'd throw in three thousand bucks, 2274 02:04:04.920 --> 02:04:07.079 because everybody would go down to Myrtle Beach or Hilton Had, 2275 02:04:07.119 --> 02:04:08.840 you know, once or twice and three thousand bucks would 2276 02:04:08.880 --> 02:04:12.159 cover it. That minimum has now become five thousand for 2277 02:04:12.279 --> 02:04:14.279 my folks who don't bring up travel. For the ones 2278 02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:16.359 who say, yes, we've always wanted to travel, we can't 2279 02:04:16.359 --> 02:04:18.159 wait to do it. Now we're putting in ten to 2280 02:04:18.239 --> 02:04:20.520 twelve thousand at an absolute minimum. For the ones who 2281 02:04:20.520 --> 02:04:23.119 want to hit it hard, we're budgeting twenty thousand dollars 2282 02:04:23.159 --> 02:04:26.159 per year, and so there's stories in here about of course, 2283 02:04:26.479 --> 02:04:28.600 if you're going to budget out a trip to Europe, 2284 02:04:28.640 --> 02:04:30.680 that's going to be in the twenty thousand dollars range 2285 02:04:30.920 --> 02:04:32.000 to go make it worth your while. 2286 02:04:32.039 --> 02:04:33.840 Nobody goes for a long weekend. You're going to make 2287 02:04:33.880 --> 02:04:34.640 it at least ten. 2288 02:04:34.560 --> 02:04:39.079 Days or so twenty thousand dollars. Now, we budgeted one 2289 02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:41.800 for the James family. We didn't end up going because 2290 02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:44.399 it was twenty twenty and you can remember what happened then. 2291 02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:46.319 We were very close to swiping the credit card, but 2292 02:04:46.640 --> 02:04:48.760 it was going to be about thirteen thousand at that 2293 02:04:48.880 --> 02:04:51.720 point to get all five of us through Scandinavia and 2294 02:04:52.000 --> 02:04:53.720 then that was through cost Co, which is about as 2295 02:04:53.800 --> 02:04:56.760 reasonable as you can possibly get. But yeah, so we're 2296 02:04:56.800 --> 02:04:59.279 hearing stories about forty one percent of people this year 2297 02:04:59.760 --> 02:05:02.560 plan trips of three nights or fewer, meaning you know, 2298 02:05:02.640 --> 02:05:06.079 we're taking long weekends. That's up from thirty seven percent. 2299 02:05:06.119 --> 02:05:08.600 So we've seen a ten percent increase year over year 2300 02:05:08.680 --> 02:05:10.039 in the people who are saying we're not going to 2301 02:05:10.039 --> 02:05:11.840 take as big of a vacation as we've as we've 2302 02:05:11.880 --> 02:05:15.880 done in the past. Americans who are planning vacations period 2303 02:05:15.960 --> 02:05:17.760 it dropped below forty percent this year. 2304 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:21.600 That's still lower than twenty twenty four In about. 2305 02:05:21.359 --> 02:05:24.159 Twelve percent of travelers say they've changed their plans because 2306 02:05:24.199 --> 02:05:26.199 of the tariffs, which have spooked him enough to say, 2307 02:05:26.239 --> 02:05:28.239 the heck with it, We'll just we'll stay in this summer. 2308 02:05:28.359 --> 02:05:30.800 Well, I saw this one guy that's quoted in the article. 2309 02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:33.119 He said the tariffs sort of got everybody around the 2310 02:05:33.159 --> 02:05:36.600 world mad at us. He was worried about being treated 2311 02:05:36.680 --> 02:05:41.840 poorly if he showed up at his original destination because 2312 02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:45.039 the locals would frown upon us tourists. Is that really 2313 02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:46.239 a thing? 2314 02:05:47.439 --> 02:05:49.760 Yeah, I think some of that stuff is overblown. As 2315 02:05:49.800 --> 02:05:50.720 for sexy headline. 2316 02:05:50.720 --> 02:05:52.000 So, I have a good friend of mine who's a 2317 02:05:52.119 --> 02:05:54.319 federal employee, and he was sent to Europe for about 2318 02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:56.720 three months during all this stuff. He just got back 2319 02:05:56.960 --> 02:05:59.319 and we asked him that question, are you getting grief 2320 02:05:59.399 --> 02:06:02.279 from anybody? And most of it was good natured ribbing, 2321 02:06:02.640 --> 02:06:04.319 you know, just kind of saying, hey, the United States 2322 02:06:04.319 --> 02:06:06.600 isn't playing nice in the sandbox anymore. But he had 2323 02:06:06.680 --> 02:06:09.760 no point faced any kind of true, you know, adverse 2324 02:06:10.039 --> 02:06:12.560 consequences because of those headlines. I wouldn't worry too much 2325 02:06:12.560 --> 02:06:15.920 about that part. People know the reality that the average 2326 02:06:15.960 --> 02:06:18.800 person wandering around the streets, you know, from the United 2327 02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:21.119 States doesn't have control over this and may may not 2328 02:06:21.159 --> 02:06:22.880 agree with Oh that's I'm not too worried about that. 2329 02:06:22.960 --> 02:06:25.680 That's the practical bottom line is. Listen, I'm not Trump. 2330 02:06:25.760 --> 02:06:29.159 I didn't do it, for sure. I hurried him to 2331 02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:31.680 the extent it's going to even do anything anyhow. Has 2332 02:06:31.760 --> 02:06:34.680 tourism dropped off from foreigners coming into the United States? 2333 02:06:34.720 --> 02:06:38.119 I know Canada had a fairly sizable double digit drop 2334 02:06:38.199 --> 02:06:41.680 in Canadians interested in visiting the United States because of 2335 02:06:41.840 --> 02:06:46.680 tariff'sligiously generally speaking, but how about generally the US tourism industry. 2336 02:06:46.760 --> 02:06:49.000 Has it dropped off for a similar reasons? 2337 02:06:49.680 --> 02:06:51.680 Absolutely? Yeah, for political purposes. 2338 02:06:51.760 --> 02:06:54.359 Yeah, So international travel the United States is down about 2339 02:06:54.359 --> 02:06:57.119 five percent in twenty five compared to twenty four. That's 2340 02:06:57.199 --> 02:07:01.000 despite earlier forecasts that were predicting close to nine growth. Now, 2341 02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:03.399 those forecasts, of course, did not take into account what 2342 02:07:03.479 --> 02:07:05.399 the United States was going to be doing politically here 2343 02:07:05.439 --> 02:07:08.880 in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. So we're 2344 02:07:08.960 --> 02:07:11.359 now estimating that visitors spending is going to fall by 2345 02:07:11.399 --> 02:07:13.680 about eleven percent, and that's going to cost US about 2346 02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:16.720 eighteen billion dollars in money that is no longer coming 2347 02:07:16.800 --> 02:07:20.239 over from overseas in the handbook or in the purchase 2348 02:07:20.279 --> 02:07:20.840 of travelers. 2349 02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:23.000 Well, but how does the dollar fare? And so far 2350 02:07:23.079 --> 02:07:26.479 as you know, one's a spending ability, I mean, are 2351 02:07:26.520 --> 02:07:30.520 we is a foreign national in good shape coming here? 2352 02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:32.920 Do they get more value let's say, for their euro 2353 02:07:33.159 --> 02:07:35.680 here than they otherwise would? Where's the currency stand? 2354 02:07:36.640 --> 02:07:39.039 Yeah, so the US dollar is weakening, of course, because 2355 02:07:39.239 --> 02:07:42.279 in what that means is that it is cheaper for 2356 02:07:42.800 --> 02:07:44.239 foreigners to come to the United States. 2357 02:07:44.479 --> 02:07:45.640 In the United States should be. 2358 02:07:45.720 --> 02:07:50.079 Looking like a more attractive, attractive option because mathematically, speaking, 2359 02:07:50.119 --> 02:07:52.039 it's cheaper for them to come overseas. I remember when 2360 02:07:52.079 --> 02:07:54.640 the opposite was true. This is probably about twenty years ago, Brian. Yes, 2361 02:07:54.720 --> 02:07:57.000 and I remember seeing ads in the paper of all 2362 02:07:57.079 --> 02:07:59.279 this is how so I'm dating myself now, but ads 2363 02:07:59.319 --> 02:08:00.880 in the paper for how cheap it was to go 2364 02:08:01.000 --> 02:08:02.960 spend a long weekend shopping in Europe. 2365 02:08:03.079 --> 02:08:04.439 Because the opposite was true. 2366 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:06.920 The dollar was so strong and the euro was so 2367 02:08:07.119 --> 02:08:09.279 weak it would cost next to nothing for you to 2368 02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:12.560 fly overseas and do that. The opposite is it's not 2369 02:08:12.720 --> 02:08:15.279 quite the same here but at the but it hasn't 2370 02:08:15.319 --> 02:08:17.840 had the impact in terms of the travel demand because 2371 02:08:17.920 --> 02:08:20.239 of all the geopolitical stuff going on. So people right 2372 02:08:20.279 --> 02:08:22.560 now are focusing on their passions, not the numbers. 2373 02:08:23.399 --> 02:08:25.520 Brian James another edition of Monday Monday. Thanks to all 2374 02:08:25.560 --> 02:08:27.960 Worth for loaning out every Monday for a nice chat 2375 02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:30.760 and helpful information. Brian. I'll look forward to another audition 2376 02:08:30.880 --> 02:08:32.560 next Monday, and I hope you have a wonderful week. 2377 02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:34.680 You too, have a good week. Talk to you Monday. 2378 02:08:34.760 --> 02:08:38.800 Thanks brother. It's eight thirty nine, almost e thirty nine 2379 02:08:38.840 --> 02:08:40.920 here fifty five car City Talk Station, A very happy 2380 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:43.640 Monday to you. Oh, I have been intrigued by this 2381 02:08:43.720 --> 02:08:45.279 since I saw him on the rundown. I'm happy to 2382 02:08:45.279 --> 02:08:47.239 welcome to the fifty five Carssey Morning Show. Since any 2383 02:08:47.319 --> 02:08:50.920 Native an Air Force veteran he did servicing Iraq, he 2384 02:08:51.159 --> 02:08:55.520 is well also kind of crazy. I will tell you 2385 02:08:55.640 --> 02:08:58.279 that Tom Hester welcome to the program. By way of background, 2386 02:08:58.319 --> 02:09:01.079 he's currently the vice president and co founder Heroic Expeditions. 2387 02:09:01.119 --> 02:09:04.119 It's a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower veterans 2388 02:09:04.159 --> 02:09:06.600 to reclaim their sense of self and help them find 2389 02:09:06.680 --> 02:09:09.960 healing and unearth the boundless possibilities that await them after 2390 02:09:10.000 --> 02:09:13.600 the years of military service. Programs offered by Heroic Expeditions 2391 02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:18.520 dot org include mental health counseling referrals, group recreational activities, 2392 02:09:18.640 --> 02:09:21.399 and a mental health first aid course. Let me start 2393 02:09:21.399 --> 02:09:23.680 off by thanking you for your service to our country. Tim, 2394 02:09:23.920 --> 02:09:25.479 it's a pleasure to have you on this morning. 2395 02:09:27.720 --> 02:09:30.960 Thank you very much for having me something I've been 2396 02:09:30.960 --> 02:09:32.199 looking forward to for a while. 2397 02:09:32.119 --> 02:09:35.119 Now, And I said, kind of crazy. You're going to 2398 02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:38.720 be at the Lunch with a Veteran event on Sunday, 2399 02:09:38.800 --> 02:09:42.760 May twenty fifth, and this takes place at Arlington Memorial Gardens. 2400 02:09:42.760 --> 02:09:47.920 Have I got that correct, Yes, and Arlington Memorial Gardens 2401 02:09:47.960 --> 02:09:50.960 has obtained exclusive rights to something I'm sure near and 2402 02:09:51.000 --> 02:09:53.720 dear to your heart at the PBS documentary called Defying 2403 02:09:54.039 --> 02:09:58.159 Death on the Atlantic, and you're a crew member on 2404 02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:01.520 the team that's featured in this PBS documentary. 2405 02:10:01.600 --> 02:10:02.159 Is that correct? 2406 02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:06.199 That is correct, and probably why you and many other 2407 02:10:06.399 --> 02:10:07.039 call me crazy. 2408 02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:10.680 That's that, okay? How many of us would sign up 2409 02:10:11.159 --> 02:10:15.399 for what is described as a perilous three thousand mile 2410 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:19.600 ocean rowing race called the World's Toughest row. I mean, 2411 02:10:20.680 --> 02:10:24.640 that's bad assery or craziness right there, My friend tell 2412 02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:27.039 us all about what this race involves before we get 2413 02:10:27.079 --> 02:10:28.560 to the details of what happened to you on that 2414 02:10:28.640 --> 02:10:29.760 team in twenty twenty two. 2415 02:10:32.159 --> 02:10:35.359 Well, I think you're absolutely right. Not many people would 2416 02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:39.359 sign up for that amount of craziness a three thousand 2417 02:10:39.439 --> 02:10:43.199 mile row, no sales, no engines, just you and your team. 2418 02:10:43.279 --> 02:10:46.800 And if you ain't rowing, you ain't going three thousand 2419 02:10:46.840 --> 02:10:50.520 miles from Lagamra and the Canary Islands to Antigua in 2420 02:10:50.600 --> 02:10:51.199 the Caribbean. 2421 02:10:51.760 --> 02:10:55.640 That was the goal to help motivate fellow veterans to. 2422 02:10:55.880 --> 02:10:58.199 Get out of their little bubble out of their own world, 2423 02:10:58.319 --> 02:11:00.439 go do something cool like you got to while you 2424 02:11:00.439 --> 02:11:03.159 were in the military, overcome your challenges. 2425 02:11:04.359 --> 02:11:07.399 We set out to help guys get over trauma, and 2426 02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:09.319 we came home with just a little bit more of 2427 02:11:09.399 --> 02:11:09.760 our own. 2428 02:11:10.199 --> 02:11:13.439 Yes, you did. How many men are on the team? 2429 02:11:13.439 --> 02:11:15.680 You've never cooperated the way we needed it too. 2430 02:11:15.960 --> 02:11:17.720 Well, it's the ocean. You don't have no idea what 2431 02:11:17.800 --> 02:11:19.600 you're going to run into out there in the ocean. 2432 02:11:19.800 --> 02:11:21.640 How many men are on your team? We're on your team. 2433 02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:27.119 We were all deployed together in two thousand and eight, 2434 02:11:27.720 --> 02:11:30.399 so by the time the race started in twenty twenty two, 2435 02:11:31.640 --> 02:11:35.359 we had known each other and become lifelong friends, were 2436 02:11:35.439 --> 02:11:37.680 ready to go do some badassery together. 2437 02:11:38.119 --> 02:11:38.319 Yeah. 2438 02:11:38.479 --> 02:11:40.119 And there were a total of how many of you? 2439 02:11:41.079 --> 02:11:42.239 There were four of us four? 2440 02:11:44.159 --> 02:11:46.920 Yeah, So there were always two guys rowing, and there 2441 02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:51.039 were always two guys resting, rotated in two hour shifts 2442 02:11:51.239 --> 02:11:52.079 twenty four to seven. 2443 02:11:52.359 --> 02:11:55.600 So how long, okay, how long did you anticipate this 2444 02:11:55.760 --> 02:11:58.479 three thousand mile because I know you didn't make it 2445 02:11:58.560 --> 02:11:59.880 in twenty twenty two, and we're going to get to 2446 02:11:59.880 --> 02:12:02.439 that the moment. I'm keeping my powder dry on on 2447 02:12:02.560 --> 02:12:05.479 what happened to you. But the expectation of the time 2448 02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:08.119 it would take to complete when you started out, Oh, 2449 02:12:08.159 --> 02:12:09.960 it's going to take us about how many days to 2450 02:12:10.039 --> 02:12:10.520 complete this? 2451 02:12:11.840 --> 02:12:16.680 We were shooting for under fifty fifty days. 2452 02:12:17.000 --> 02:12:19.680 Yes, unsupported. So we had all of our own food 2453 02:12:19.800 --> 02:12:22.600 packed in the boat. We had solar panels, so we 2454 02:12:22.760 --> 02:12:25.600 had energy on the boat, and we also had a 2455 02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:29.640 desalinator on board so we could drink fresh water made 2456 02:12:29.680 --> 02:12:30.439 right from the ocean. 2457 02:12:30.840 --> 02:12:33.000 Now, in terms of the size of the craft, how 2458 02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:34.800 many feet was it and was did it come with 2459 02:12:34.920 --> 02:12:37.479 some form of shelter because you get inclement weather, as 2460 02:12:37.479 --> 02:12:40.239 we're going to find out. So what does a general 2461 02:12:40.279 --> 02:12:42.279 description of the boat look like. 2462 02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:47.640 The boat was twenty eight feet long by five feet wide. 2463 02:12:49.159 --> 02:12:52.840 The rowing portion the deck of the boat was completely open. 2464 02:12:53.079 --> 02:12:56.439 There was no overhead shelter or anything. But each end 2465 02:12:56.520 --> 02:12:59.119 of the boat had a cabin in it and that's 2466 02:12:59.159 --> 02:13:01.399 where you would spend you off shift, so you were 2467 02:13:01.600 --> 02:13:03.520 enclosed on either end of the boat. 2468 02:13:03.840 --> 02:13:07.520 Okay, Now, the name of your team, which I got 2469 02:13:07.560 --> 02:13:09.319 a big chuckle out of, and I know it was done. 2470 02:13:09.640 --> 02:13:12.239 It done tongue in cheek, but let my listeners know. 2471 02:13:15.079 --> 02:13:18.880 The team an organization that we rode for was called Fight. 2472 02:13:18.960 --> 02:13:22.880 Or Die or is oar right? All right? So that 2473 02:13:22.960 --> 02:13:25.840 makes perfect sense considering you're going on a three thousand 2474 02:13:25.880 --> 02:13:29.159 mile ocean rowing race. So in twenty twenty two, when 2475 02:13:29.159 --> 02:13:33.319 you embarked on this at the outset huge challenge, let 2476 02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:36.439 my listeners know what happened. What's depicted in the Defying 2477 02:13:36.520 --> 02:13:38.039 Death on the Atlantic documentary. 2478 02:13:39.119 --> 02:13:42.000 Sure, so, like you had said, the race started in December, 2479 02:13:43.479 --> 02:13:46.359 I don't The reason it starts at that time frame 2480 02:13:46.520 --> 02:13:49.439 is because the trade winds off of Africa should have 2481 02:13:49.560 --> 02:13:52.479 formed by then. Well, what had happened to us? Right 2482 02:13:52.520 --> 02:13:57.159 around Christmas Day? There was a giant storm that passed 2483 02:13:57.199 --> 02:13:59.439 over Buffalo, New York. I think it dropped like eight 2484 02:13:59.520 --> 02:14:02.840 feet as no wantum, and then the jet stream pushed 2485 02:14:02.920 --> 02:14:07.319 out to the North Atlantic. Well, that storm generated thirty 2486 02:14:07.439 --> 02:14:12.439 forty foot swells, sustained thirty nine winds, and on the 2487 02:14:13.159 --> 02:14:17.520 morning of the twenty eighth our boat that was supposed 2488 02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:20.880 to self right in the event of a capsize, our 2489 02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:22.680 boat capsized on top of a wave. 2490 02:14:22.880 --> 02:14:24.760 We got hit by a giant got. 2491 02:14:24.720 --> 02:14:27.319 The wind flipped our boat over in the middle of 2492 02:14:27.399 --> 02:14:30.840 the night, and never self righted the way it was 2493 02:14:30.840 --> 02:14:36.079 supposed to, so effectively ending our race right at that moment. 2494 02:14:36.600 --> 02:14:38.520 And so this is the middle of the night and 2495 02:14:38.640 --> 02:14:40.760 you're out in the middle of the ocean. Obviously there's 2496 02:14:40.800 --> 02:14:43.239 no light going on around there. Can I just ask you, 2497 02:14:43.880 --> 02:14:46.159 because I know exactly if I would, that would be 2498 02:14:46.279 --> 02:14:49.720 a I have to change my shorts inducing moment in time. 2499 02:14:50.119 --> 02:14:52.479 What were your emotions like at the time that that happened. 2500 02:14:52.479 --> 02:14:54.279 And I know you were out at sea for a 2501 02:14:54.319 --> 02:14:55.840 while thereafter, We'll get to that in a minute, but 2502 02:14:56.119 --> 02:14:58.000 what were your emotions like at the very moment that 2503 02:14:58.079 --> 02:14:58.640 that happened. 2504 02:15:00.600 --> 02:15:03.399 I was in the cabin and I'm very grateful that 2505 02:15:03.479 --> 02:15:05.079 I was inside when it happened. 2506 02:15:06.920 --> 02:15:10.399 I was kind of in between sleep and total fear 2507 02:15:10.520 --> 02:15:13.880 at that moment. Yeah, we knew we were in probably. 2508 02:15:14.199 --> 02:15:16.680 Not the best of situations, so we were all kind 2509 02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:19.640 of on edge the whole day. The moment the boat 2510 02:15:19.680 --> 02:15:23.520 flipped over, there was probably a split second. 2511 02:15:23.279 --> 02:15:26.039 Of oh my god, we're upside down. This is not good. 2512 02:15:27.039 --> 02:15:29.800 But right after that training kind of kicked in. 2513 02:15:31.520 --> 02:15:33.520 This is a race and a moment we had been 2514 02:15:33.600 --> 02:15:35.880 preparing for for a couple of years at that point, 2515 02:15:36.560 --> 02:15:38.800 so I was in a position where I knew the 2516 02:15:38.840 --> 02:15:41.439 boat was supposed to flip back over, but it was 2517 02:15:41.520 --> 02:15:43.399 totally dark and all I could see was. 2518 02:15:43.439 --> 02:15:47.079 The waterline in the window of the hatch and it 2519 02:15:47.199 --> 02:15:47.800 didn't move. 2520 02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:52.800 Oh my, Now you swam out then from the hatch, 2521 02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:54.359 I presume. 2522 02:15:55.039 --> 02:15:57.560 So, kind of like a car accident. Time slowed down 2523 02:15:57.760 --> 02:16:00.640 a lot while I was in the cabin. 2524 02:16:01.079 --> 02:16:01.840 I had to. 2525 02:16:01.960 --> 02:16:04.479 Grab all of our gear that we were going to need. 2526 02:16:05.000 --> 02:16:06.840 I had heard one of my teammates will, yeah, we 2527 02:16:06.960 --> 02:16:08.600 need to get to the life raft. The boat's not 2528 02:16:08.680 --> 02:16:12.520 flipping over, So at that moment it was time to 2529 02:16:12.600 --> 02:16:14.199 go to work. I knew I needed to grab a 2530 02:16:14.239 --> 02:16:18.319 lot of stuff for us. Turned out I had been 2531 02:16:18.399 --> 02:16:21.800 in that cabin for about forty to forty five minutes 2532 02:16:21.880 --> 02:16:24.199 before I left the cabin and get to the life raft. 2533 02:16:25.279 --> 02:16:28.560 Wow, and well, I had no idea it was that long. 2534 02:16:28.720 --> 02:16:30.720 It felt like maybe five to ten. 2535 02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:36.799 Oh my. And was all of your your crewmates were 2536 02:16:36.920 --> 02:16:39.920 safe in the quote unquote safe sense under the circumstances, 2537 02:16:40.000 --> 02:16:42.280 Maybe not so safe considering the storm raging around you. 2538 02:16:42.399 --> 02:16:43.840 In the fact that your boat was flipped over but 2539 02:16:43.920 --> 02:16:47.319 you had the life raft. Did any point in time 2540 02:16:47.600 --> 02:16:50.040 any of the crewmates like lose track of the boat 2541 02:16:50.120 --> 02:16:52.319 or the craft I get washed out that they were 2542 02:16:52.399 --> 02:16:55.559 concerned that they might not be rescued or get get 2543 02:16:55.600 --> 02:16:56.479 back to the life raft. 2544 02:16:57.600 --> 02:17:02.680 So two of us were in the cars and two 2545 02:17:02.719 --> 02:17:04.879 of the teammates were actually on deck still in the 2546 02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:05.680 rowing position. 2547 02:17:06.600 --> 02:17:09.239 So when you are not in a cabin, you are 2548 02:17:09.360 --> 02:17:11.079 required to be harnessed and tethered. 2549 02:17:12.639 --> 02:17:15.040 So when the boat did flip over, two of the 2550 02:17:15.079 --> 02:17:18.000 teammates were actually ejected opposite directions. 2551 02:17:18.959 --> 02:17:20.520 The other two of us were still in. 2552 02:17:20.600 --> 02:17:25.000 The cabin right, So them being tethered to the boat 2553 02:17:25.879 --> 02:17:27.799 was paramount to everybody making at home. 2554 02:17:28.440 --> 02:17:30.799 Well, that's that's reassuring to know. I was kind of 2555 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:32.920 wondering how that worked out. So thank god for safety 2556 02:17:33.000 --> 02:17:36.280 equipment and portable radio. Did you have an opportunity to 2557 02:17:36.319 --> 02:17:39.399 communicate you weren't flying blind out there in the middle 2558 02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:41.319 of the ocean before the vote boat cap size? Did 2559 02:17:41.360 --> 02:17:43.159 you have a portable radio or something that went with 2560 02:17:43.200 --> 02:17:45.120 a lifeboat or the lifeboat have one built in? 2561 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:50.280 So we had a satellite phone that we actually had 2562 02:17:50.319 --> 02:17:52.079 to use and keep on every day. 2563 02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:55.920 We were part of a race hosted by Atlantic Campaigns 2564 02:17:56.559 --> 02:18:00.959 and they have very strict safety requirements, and one of 2565 02:18:01.000 --> 02:18:04.639 those is you talk on a satellite phone with their 2566 02:18:04.719 --> 02:18:07.840 safety officer at least every other day. And we had 2567 02:18:07.920 --> 02:18:10.319 just spoken with him on the satellite phone the day before, 2568 02:18:11.040 --> 02:18:14.200 so you know, we had the satellite phone on a charger. 2569 02:18:14.840 --> 02:18:17.399 When I was drabbing gear to go to the life raft, 2570 02:18:17.479 --> 02:18:18.840 that was one of the things I grabbed. 2571 02:18:18.879 --> 02:18:24.200 I grab the satellite phone, a VHF radio, and a 2572 02:18:24.799 --> 02:18:26.040 handheld GPS. 2573 02:18:26.479 --> 02:18:29.319 That's about all we had. Now by the time we 2574 02:18:29.399 --> 02:18:31.920 got to the life raft, though, the satellite phone. 2575 02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:34.360 Had gotten wet and it didn't work. Oh no, So 2576 02:18:34.479 --> 02:18:39.760 our only communication devices were two cell phones that weren't 2577 02:18:39.799 --> 02:18:41.799 going to work in the middle of the Atlantic, and 2578 02:18:42.000 --> 02:18:45.399 a VHF radio that works by line of sight. So 2579 02:18:45.440 --> 02:18:47.600 that's actually not very far when you're still in thirty 2580 02:18:47.639 --> 02:18:48.159 foot waves. 2581 02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:51.120 Jeez. So how many days were you on the or 2582 02:18:51.200 --> 02:18:53.000 how long we were on the how long I should 2583 02:18:53.000 --> 02:18:55.840 say we were on the life raft before you were rescued, 2584 02:18:55.879 --> 02:18:57.239 and how did you get rescued. 2585 02:18:58.440 --> 02:19:02.879 Well, we had been in the life raft for approximately 2586 02:19:03.040 --> 02:19:07.639 sixteen hours before ever making contact with anybody. 2587 02:19:09.399 --> 02:19:10.440 On about our. 2588 02:19:10.399 --> 02:19:13.120 Sixteen and a half we made another May Day call 2589 02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:18.840 on that VHF radio and we received a reply via 2590 02:19:19.239 --> 02:19:23.319 two Mike clicks from who We had no idea who 2591 02:19:23.399 --> 02:19:25.440 could hear us, but at that point we didn't care. 2592 02:19:28.159 --> 02:19:32.000 About an hour later we were able to communicate with somebody, 2593 02:19:32.159 --> 02:19:35.360 still didn't know who it was, and then an hour 2594 02:19:35.479 --> 02:19:38.639 later we were picked up by a six hundred foot 2595 02:19:38.719 --> 02:19:40.399 cargo ship out of the Netherlands. 2596 02:19:41.799 --> 02:19:44.440 Wow, from a deflating life raft. 2597 02:19:44.680 --> 02:19:47.399 Oh my, And I'm sure all of this is in 2598 02:19:47.520 --> 02:19:49.959 the PBS documentary to Fine Death on the Atlantic. Again, 2599 02:19:50.040 --> 02:19:52.639 it's Arlington Memorial Gardens has got the exclusive rights to 2600 02:19:52.799 --> 02:19:54.959 premiere this. You will be at the premiere if you 2601 02:19:55.040 --> 02:19:59.600 show up at Arlington Memorial Gardens May fourth, that's Saturday 2602 02:19:59.680 --> 02:20:02.840 one is the first showing. You got a four pm 2603 02:20:02.959 --> 02:20:06.079 showing on the twenty fourth, and then on Sunday, May 2604 02:20:06.200 --> 02:20:08.719 twenty fifth is a two pm showing. And that's the 2605 02:20:08.799 --> 02:20:11.239 day when you'll be speaking at the annual luncheon with 2606 02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:14.040 a veteran That's the twenty fifth of May. Right, Yes, 2607 02:20:14.920 --> 02:20:17.200 I am very excited for that, I guess, and you know, 2608 02:20:17.399 --> 02:20:19.559 I thank god you're alive and able to talk about this. 2609 02:20:19.879 --> 02:20:21.639 Just amazing story. 2610 02:20:21.680 --> 02:20:21.760 Just. 2611 02:20:24.440 --> 02:20:27.079 Proving again why I would never volunteer to do something 2612 02:20:27.159 --> 02:20:29.399 as crazy as this Sunday. 2613 02:20:29.520 --> 02:20:30.840 Maybe people would not. 2614 02:20:31.200 --> 02:20:33.280 I believe more people have been to space than have 2615 02:20:33.520 --> 02:20:35.079 rowed a boat across an ocean. 2616 02:20:35.360 --> 02:20:38.239 And that sounds about right to be a Heroic Expeditions 2617 02:20:38.319 --> 02:20:40.479 dot org for my veteran friends in the audio, in 2618 02:20:40.559 --> 02:20:44.719 the audience doing great things, Veterans united in resilience, bonded 2619 02:20:44.920 --> 02:20:48.120 forged in adventure like the one we just talked about. 2620 02:20:48.239 --> 02:20:50.360 It's been a real pleasure having on the program, and 2621 02:20:50.479 --> 02:20:52.399 thanks again for your service to our country and your 2622 02:20:52.440 --> 02:20:55.719 continued service to our country with your organization Heroic Expeditions. 2623 02:20:56.760 --> 02:20:57.319 Well, thank you. 2624 02:20:57.440 --> 02:21:00.680 The pleasure has been all mine. Crazy man got respect, 2625 02:21:00.799 --> 02:21:04.120 There's no doubt about it. Eight fifty one fifty five 2626 02:21:04.239 --> 02:21:05.440 KRC Detalk. 2627 02:21:05.159 --> 02:21:08.280 Station fifty five KRC. 2628 02:21:08.760 --> 02:21:10.000 What if you had an extra doub